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1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against the British colonial presence. 1966 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board. [7] 1967 – Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio ...
Born: Filemon Lagman ("Ka Popoy"), Filipino revolutionary, in Bicol (d. 2001) March 18, 1953 (Wednesday) An earthquake hit western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people. The final of the 1953 NCAA basketball tournament for men was held in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, and was won by the Indiana Hoosiers. [20]
Woodrow Wilson (born Staunton, Virginia ), 28th President of the United States, Governor of New Jersey, lived in Princeton. Dave Winfield (born Saint Paul, Minnesota ), lives in Teaneck. Stevie Wonder (born Saginaw, Michigan ), lives in Alpine. Feng Yun (born Liaoning, China), lives in New Jersey.
Wiley Post (1898–1935), pilot, the first to travel around the world solo. Megyn Price (born 1971), actress ( Rules of Engagement) Tony Randall (1920–2004), actor ( The Odd Couple) Erik Rhodes (1906–1990), actor, singer. Dale Robertson (1923–2013), film and television actor; later rancher near Yukon, Oklahoma.
1865 – U.S. politician Andrew Johnson made his drunk vice-presidential inaugural address in Washington, D.C. [5] 1878 – Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603. [6] 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
Caroline M. Sawyer – poet, biographer, editor. Daniel Scott – author, Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount (Braintree) Horace Scudder – man of letters, editor. Dr. Seuss – born Theodor Seuss Geisel, author, poet and illustrator (Springfield) Anne Sexton – poet (Newton) Mark Shasha – author.
Gordon "Butch" Stewart. George Stiebel, trader and entrepreneur who became Jamaica's first black millionaire. Tom Tavares-Finson, lawyer. Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality. James S. Watson, one of the first Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York. Dame Sharon White, businesswoman and Second Permanent ...
March 15 is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) ... 1974 – Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, ...