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| Science Boy
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|  On This Day (March 19)
- 1279 – The Song Dynasty in Imperial China ended with a victory by the Yuan Dynasty at the Battle of Yamen off the coast of Xinhui, Guangdong Province.
- 1687 – The search for the mouth of the Mississippi River led by French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ended with a mutiny and his murder in present-day Texas.
- 1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer born. (d. 1873) (A Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), to which he gave the English name in honor of his monarch, Queen Victoria. He is the subject of the meeting with H. M. Stanley, which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?")
- 1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter born. (d. 1929) (An American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, and miner. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp.)
- 1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official born. (d. 1981) (An architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".)
- 1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official born. (d. 1962) (He was often referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust", was a high-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.)
- 1915 – Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was eventually discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
- 1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
- 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1978 – In response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the United Nations called on Israel to immediately withdraw its forces from Lebanon, and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
- 1982 – Argentine forces led by Alfredo Astiz occupied South Georgia, precipitating the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
- 2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor died. (b. 1917) ("Childhood's End", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Rendezvous with Rama")
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