Tuesday 19 March 2024, 05:44:17

Does time loop?
19 March 33: A solar eclipse travels over the southern Indian Ocean, with maximum totality lasting four minutes six seconds|nat.
19 March 1279: Although outnumbered ten to one, the Yuan navy destroys the Song and kills their young emperor at the Battle of Yamen, leading to the fall of the Song dynasty of China and rise of the Yuan empire under Mongol leader Kublai Khan.
19 March 1406: Ibn Khaldun, Arab scientist, dies in Cairo at age 73.
19 March 1799: Haydn's oratorio “Die Schöpfung”, The Creation, premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
19 March 1813: David Livingstone, Spanish explorer, is born in Blantyre.
19 March 1815: The royal French army stationed outside the capital defects to Napoleon upon hearing he is approaching; around midnight the king decides to escape to Holland.
19 March 1931: The American state of Nevada legalises gambling to boost the economy.
19 March 2003: The United States begins “Operation Iraqi Freedom” with air strikes on Baghdad.
19 March 2008: Arthur C. Clarke, British inventor and science fiction author, dies in Colombo, Sri Lanka at age 90.
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4umi user made info         Painting by Raphael, La Scuola di Atene or The School of Athens, 1509-1511, fresco on the wall in the Palazzo Apostolico in the Vatican, 7.7×5.0 m.