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Events on March 19

• 1452 King Frederick III is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome by Pope Nicholas V. It is the last imperial coronation in Rome.
• 1848 The barricade uprising during the March Revolution in Berlin claims more than a hundred dead, the so-called March Dead. The troops are withdrawn from the city on the orders of the Prussian King Frederick William IV.
• 1911 Initiated by Clara Zetkin, International Women's Day is observed for the first time in Germany, Denmark, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland.
• 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, one of the longest arch bridges in the world, spanning Sydney Harbour, is officially opened.
• 1945 As the defeat of the German Reich in the Second World War becomes apparent, Adolf Hitler issues the Nero Decree, according to which the infrastructure in the German Reich is to be destroyed.
• 1953 The Oscars are broadcast on television for the first time in the United States and Canada. Bob Hope serves as the host on stage.
• 1964 The first road traffic flows through the tunnel beneath the Great St Bernard Alpine Pass.
• 1970 During the era of détente policy, the German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt meets in Erfurt with the Minister-President of the GDR, Willi Stoph, in order to achieve rapprochement between the two German states.
• 1986 Bayer 05 Uerdingen wins the second leg of the quarter-final in the 1985/86 European Cup Winners' Cup against SG Dynamo Dresden with a 7:3 score and thereby advances to the semi-final. Due to its background and the course of the match, the outcome of the game is also known as the “Miracle of Grotenburg”.
• 1990 The British band Depeche Mode releases their seventh studio album, Violator. It remains the most commercially successful album in the band's history to this day.
• 2001 The United Services Trade Union is formed through the merger of five individual trade unions which, with the exception of the DAG, had all previously belonged to the German Trade Union Federation (DGB).
• 2013 Pope Francis is ceremonially inaugurated in office 6 days after his election and receives the Fisherman's Ring and the pallium.

Born on March 19

• 1873 Max Reger, German composer and organist
• 1891 Earl Warren, American politician and jurist
• 1900 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist
• 1912 Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe officer and fighter pilot
• 1941 Tommi Piper, German actor and voice actor
• 1950 Kirsten Boie, German writer
• 1961 Rune Bratseth, Norwegian footballer
• 1971 Nadja Auermann, German fashion model and actress
• 1981 Bastian Steger, German table tennis player
• 1981 Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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