Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 19
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March 19: Saint Joseph's Day in Catholicism; Father's Day in various countries. Canberra Day in the Australian Capital Territory (2007).
- 1279 - The Song Dynasty in Imperial China ended with a Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen.
- 1687 - The search for the mouth of the Mississippi River led by French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle ended with a mutiny and his murder in present-day Texas.
- 1915 - Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was eventually discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
- 1916 - Ten days after Pancho Villa (pictured) and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.
- 1982 - Argentine forces led by Alfredo Astiz occupied South Georgia, precipitating the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
