On This Day
19 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1972 The India–Bangladesh Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace was signed, forging close bilateral relations between the two countries.
- 1998 E M S Namboodiripad (popularly known as EMS), communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala in 1957–1959 and then again in 1967–1969, passed away at Thiruvananthapuram at age 88.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1895 The Lumière brothers, the earliest filmmakers in history, recorded their first footage, a 50 seconds long film.
- 1911 The first International Women's Day was observed by over 1 million people in several European countries. Later, it was decided that March 8 would be universally recognized as the International Women's Day.
- 1945 Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of all industries in Germany. The Nero Decree was issued in the light of Germany's imminent defeat in World War II. It was never fully executed.
- 1958 Britain's first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's, London.
- 2008 Arthur C Clarke, English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host, died in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals.
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