Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.
- Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
- Percy Shaw founded his company Reflecting Roadstuds Limited to make cat’s eyes.
- World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
- World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
- In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
- My Fair Lady debuts on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
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- South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
- The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- Brazilian military government ends.
- Collapse of the Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
- Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
- The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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