EVENTS:
- 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1966 – Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup.
- 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
- 2004 – 3-19 shooting incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country’s presidential election on March 20.
- 2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
- 2015 – A suspected gang-related shooting in a restaurant at Hisingen, an island near the Swedish city of Gothenburg, kills at least two people with several more injured.
- 2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
- 2016 – An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
- 2018 – The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.
- 2019 – The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.
- 2023 – The Swiss Government brokers a deal for UBS to buy out rival Credit Suisse in an attempt to calm the 2023 banking crisis.
BIRTHS:
- 1871 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (d. 1921)
- 1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
- 1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1915 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
- 1943 – Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 – John Holder, English cricketer and umpire
- 1952 – Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach
- 1966 – Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager
- 1973 – Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach
- 1984 – Tanushree Dutta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 2004
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
