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March 15–31 – WWII: The Soviet Red Army carries out the Upper Silesian Offensive. March 15 – The 17th Academy Awards ceremony is held, broadcast via radio in the United States for the first time. Best Picture goes to Going My Way. March 16 – WWII: The Battle of Iwo Jima unofficially ends.
March 12 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980) March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985) March 16 – Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (d. 1991) March 21 – Muhammad Siddiq Khan, Bangladeshi academic and librarian (d. 1978) [50] March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer and director (d ...
March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for his first transatlantic flight. [14] March 22 – The Muslim Brotherhood is founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna. [15] March 24 – Excavation work begins after the old Canaanite city of Ugarit is accidentally rediscovered. [16]
3 March – The remains of Roger Casement, from Pentonville Prison, are reburied in Dublin. 7 March – Debut of the BBC Radio comedy series Round the Horne , hosted by Kenneth Horne . The fourth programme (28 March) introduces the camp pair Julian and Sandy (played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams ) who will go on to introduce the gay and ...
10 March – The governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharples, and his aide-de-camp are assassinated. [6] 17 March – Elizabeth II opens the replacement London Bridge. [7] 21 March – Seven men are killed in the Lofthouse Colliery disaster in Yorkshire. [8] 26 March – Women are admitted into the London Stock Exchange for the first time. [9]
1 January – Possession of heroin becomes fully criminalised. [1]4 January – Eight months after winning the General Election and barely a year after becoming Prime Minister, Anthony Eden's position is looking under threat as opinion polls show Labour (now led by Hugh Gaitskell) are in the lead.
1849 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1849th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 849th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of ...
March 27 (Good Friday) – The Great Alaskan earthquake, the second-most powerful known (and the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history) at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. [14] March 28 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia abdicates the ...