March 19

On This Day In History
	1982: Conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom On this day in 1982, Argentine forces mobilized after a dispute between Argentine workers and British scientists on British-controlled South Georgia island, leading to Argentina's invasion of the Falklands two weeks later.
The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinking after being torpedoed
Biography Of The Day
	Willem de Kooning Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning, a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism and Action painting whose series Woman I–VI caused a stir with its violent images and impulsive technique, died this day in 1997.
Abstract painting by Willem de Kooning, 1949
More Events On This Day In History
	2003 U.S. President George W. Bush ordered air strikes against Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, thus launching the Second Persian Gulf War to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
1996	1996 One of the worst fires in the history of the Philippines swept through a Manila discotheque, killing 159 of the 400 people in the nightclub, which was intended to hold no more than 35.
1920	1920 Józef Pilsudski was named marshal of Poland.
1918	1918 The U.S. Congress approved daylight saving time, a system for uniformly advancing clocks so as to extend daylight hours during conventional waking time (but its unpopularity forced its repeal in 1919).
	1860 William Jennings Bryan, a Democratic and Populist leader and a magnetic orator who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency (1896, 1900, 1908), was born.
1560	1560 In the Conspiracy of Amboise, French Huguenot aristocrats failed to overthrow the Roman Catholic house of Guise.
1452	1452 Frederick III became the last Holy Roman emperor to be crowned by a pope, Nicholas V.