What Day of the Week

March 20, 2019 was the 79^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 286 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1602

  The Dutch East India Company is established.
• 1888

  The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
• 1942

  World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return”.
• 1951

  Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• 1964

  The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
• 1985

  Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• 1985

  Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• 1993

  An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
• 1995

  A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
• 2005

  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

• 1770

  Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
• 1890

  Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)
• 1903

  Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1954

  Mike Francesa, American sports talk show host
• 1961

  Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats)
• 1964

  Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
• 1969

  Mannie Fresh, American producer
• 1982

  José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1985

  Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1987

  Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer

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