Daily Calendar for Thursday, March 19, 2026

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (author) – 1950
The Rev. Carl McIntire (right-wing radio preacher) – 2002
Brian Maxwell (Canadian world-ranked marathoner who created the PowerBar in his kitchen to improve his performance) – 2004
Gus Bernier (host of the children’s program The Uncle Gus Show) – 2005
John DeLorean (automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car) – 2005
Arthur C. Clarke (science fiction writer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey) – 2008
Paul Scofield (actor) – 2008

$245,000 stolen from City Bank of New York – 1831
Daylight Saving Time was first enacted in the United States – 1918
Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35 – 1920
Academy Awards were first televised – 1953
Senate confirmed the nominations of William Brennan and Charles Whittaker to the U.S. Supreme Court – 1957
Elvis Presley paid a $1,000 deposit to buy Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee – 1957
Great St. Bernard Tunnel, 3.6 miles long, between Italy and Switzerland in the Alps, officially opened to automobile traffic – 1964
Nicolae Ceausescu became head of the Romanian Communist Party and government – 1965
President Johnson signed into law a bill eliminating the requirement that U.S. currency be backed by gold – 1968
East German Premier Stoph and West German Chancellor Brandt met in Erfurt, East Germany, at the first meeting of the heads of the postwar German states – 1970
Rev. Jim Bakker resigned as head of his TV ministry, the PTL Club, after admitting to an affair with a church secretary – 1987
1,383-square-foot omelet made, Yokohama, Japan – 1994
Rachel Harrison caught a 31-lb. 2-oz. longnose gar in the Coosa River near Rome, Georgia. – 2022