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March 19
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday November 22, 2008
March 19 in history:
- Every year: Flocks of swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, California, after flying 6,000 mi (9,650 km) from Argentina; they head back to the Southern Hemisphere around October 23.
- 2003: At 10:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, U.S. president George W. Bush announced the beginning of hostilities in the Iraq War; a U.S. airstrike targeted directly at Saddam Hussein in Baghdad (where it was March 20) had already taken place.
- 1951: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I opened in New York City at the St. James Theatre.
- 1920: The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time, thus failing to ratify the peace settlement negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference following World War I.
- 1859: One of the most popular of all operas, Faust, by Charles Gounod, was first performed, at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
- 1687: The French fur trader and explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who was the European discoverer of the lower Mississippi River, was murdered by mutineers in Texas during an unsuccessful voyage to enter the Mississippi delta from the Gulf of Mexico.
- 1671: The Paris Opéra, among the most venerable operatic institutions in the world, opened with a performance of Pomone, called the first French opera.
