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A bit of March 19th history…
1279 - A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China
1687 - Explorer Robert La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men
1918 - US Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight saving time
1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations’ covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50 million, said to have been the most powerful confederate cruiser, discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction
2003 - Airstrikes by an American and British led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without UN support and in defiance of world opinion
2018 - World’s last male northern white rhino, 45 year old Sudan, dies in Kenya (pictured)
Today in History: March 19th