March 19<\/p>\n
1831 \u2013 In the first documented bank heist in U.S. history, burglars steal $245,000 from the City Bank -now Citibank -on Wall Street.<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013 The SS Georgiana<\/em>, a iron hulled steamer, reputedly designed to be the “most powerful” cruiser in the Confederate fleet when finally armed, is destroyed in action by USS Wissahickon, <\/em>off Charleston, South Carolina, while being delivered by its builder in Scotland.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.<\/p>\n 1920 \u2013 The Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles<\/em> for the second time, the first time being on November 19, 1919.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 Governor Fred B. Balzar signs into law a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The day before his appearance to testify in front of a Grand Jury, Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone’s imprisonment, instead commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 A fire at the Monarch Underwear Company building in Manhattan, causes the deaths of 24 workers.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 In S\u00e3o Paulo, over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of Jo\u00e3o Goulart and against communism.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The wreck of the SS Georgiana<\/em>, valued at over $50,000,000\u00a0 is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day to day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, southwest of the Falkland Islands, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080319B,\u00a0 detected by the Swift satellite, sets a new record for the farthest object visible to the naked eye, seen at magnitude 5.7 for over 30 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 19 1831 \u2013 In the first documented bank heist in U.S. history, burglars steal $245,000 from the City Bank -now Citibank -on Wall Street. 1863 \u2013 The SS Georgiana, a iron hulled steamer, reputedly designed to be the “most powerful” cruiser in the Confederate fleet when finally armed, is destroyed in action by USS … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90904,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942\/revisions\/90904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}