- 1812 The first Spanish constitution is enacted, one of the earliest constitutions ever promulgated
Sagrada Familia
1882 First stone is laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí
- 1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
- 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Sydney, Australia
- 1951 Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" published (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
Film & TV History
1964 Sean Connery's first day of shooting on the James Bond film "Goldfinger"
- 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to be the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1977 Last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS, with a group hug searching for a box tissues, then singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
- 1994 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
- 2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed
- 2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best-selling hamburger chain
- 2013 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovers further evidence of water-bearing minerals
- 2019 "Superbloom" of poppies in Walker Canyon, southern California visible from space, after high rainfall
- 2021 Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years and after more than 50,000 earthquakes
- 2024 Finland is ranked the happiest country in the world by the UN for the seventh year in a row, with Afghanistan the lowest ranked [1]
- 2025 New data on dark energy from the DESI telescope further upends scientific belief that the universe is constantly expanding, its results show it has instead weakened over the last 4.5 million years [1]
