March 19 is National Oatmeal Cookie Day
March 19, is the first day of Spring, 2024.
Swallows Day, the date on which the swallows traditionally return of San Juan Capistrano Mission in California.
Birthday of William Bradford (March 19, 1589), American Pilgrim Father, signer of the Mayflower Compact. He served as Plymouth Colony Governor five times.
Birthday of David Livingstone in 1813, Scotch doctor, explorer, and medical missionary.
Birthday of William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860), American lawyer and politician, known as the “Silver-Tongued Orator”.
Publication of Federalist Paper #72: The Duration in Office of the Executive and Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
From www.teaparty911.com
This paper gives five reasons why there are no term limits for the President in the Constitution and gives a brief discussion to counter the arguments of those favoring limits. He begins by describing the importance of the functions of the chief magistrate which include foreign negotiations, plans of finance, application and disbursement of public money, the arrangement of the army and navy, and the direction of the operations of war. These functions require duration and stability in office and when another obtains the office by nature he will undo much of what has been done and will change the personnel filling the subordinate positions of the administration. If a chief magistrate can be re-elected without limit he will act his part well and give the community time to evaluate the merit of his measures and if they approve of his conduct they will continue him in his station to take advantage of his wise system of administration.
The 22nd amendment, enacted in 1951, limited presidents to a maximum of two terms in office.
Birthday of Earl Warren in 1891; 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and head of the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Birthday of Lou Henry Hoover (March 19, 1874), wife of Herbert Hoover; first lady 1929-1933. She was the first woman in America to receive a degree in geology. When Herbert Hoover was offered the position of chief engineer of China’s Bureau of Mines, he and Lou learned to speak Mandarin Chinese and used it for private conversations throughout their lives.
The U.S. Congress established time zones and approved daylight saving time in 1918.
U.S. Senate voted against membership in League of Nations on March 19, 1920. Also rejected Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time (maintaining isolation policy).
“Amos and Andy” debuted on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago) in 1928.
1931 – Gambling was legalized in Nevada.
On March 19, 1932 Sydney’s Harbour Bridge was opened.
Herman Wouk’s “Caine Mutiny,” was published in 1951.
March 19, 2003, was the start of the Gulf War II, the invasion of Iraq. Dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States, the invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba’athist government of Saddam Hussein. The invasion phase consisted primarily of a conventionally-fought war which concluded with the capture of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by American forces.