What happend on 19th March

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1972

India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.

1963

Saxophonist Stan Getz records Getz/Gilberto, including The Girl from Ipanema, sung by Astrud and João Gilberto.

1962

Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.

1958

A fire in a loft building in New York, New York kills 24 people.

1954

Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.

1953

Academy Awards are first televised.

1946

French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

1945

World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

1945

World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.

1944

World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.