^B{^#!16!19 March^N! Feast day of St Alcmund, St Joseph, St John of Panaca, and St Landoald.
^B{721 BC^B} The first-ever recorded solar eclipse was seen from Babylon. ^B{1628^B} The New England Company was formed in Massachusetts Bay. ^B{1913^B} Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's opera ^I{Boris Godunov^I} was first performed in full at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. ^B{1932^B} The Sydney Harbor Bridge, New South Wales, Australia, was opened; it was the world's longest single-span arch bridge, at 503 m/1,650 ft. ^B{1969^B} British troops landed on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, after the island declared itself a republic; they were well received, and the island remained a UK dependency.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Georges de la Tour, French painter, ^B{1593^B}; Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author, ^B{1721^B}; David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, ^B{1813^B}; Richard Burton, English explorer and scholar, ^B{1821^B}; Wyatt Earp, US law officer, ^B{1848^B}; Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario, ^B{1872^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Thomas Killigrew, English playwright, ^B{1683^B}; Mary Anning, English paleontologist who discovered the first ichthyosaurus, ^B{1847^B}; Arthur James Balfour, British prime minister, ^B{1930^B}; Edgar Rice Burroughs, US novelist who wrote the Tarzan stories, ^B{1950^B}; Alan Badel, English actor, ^B{1965^B}.
