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This article covers breaking news and events in March 2019.

Daily events

Friday 1st March 2019

• Laschkar Gah / Afghanistan : In an attack by around 20 radical Islamic Taliban on the headquarters of the 215th Army Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) in Helmand province , at least 25 soldiers and nine Taliban fighters, including three Suicide bomber killed. The headquarters also serves the U.S. Forces-led Task Force Southwest as part of Operation Resolute Support (RSM).

Saturday 2nd March 2019

The American spaceship Dragon V2 before the SpX-DM1 flight

• Calgary / Canada : Start of the speed skating all-around world championship (until 3rd 3rd)
• Kennedy Space Center / United States : Launch of a Falcon 9 launcher with the SpaceX Demomission 1 (SpX-DM1), the first orbital mission of the reusable US spaceship Dragon V2 .

Sunday 3rd March 2019

• Glasgow / United Kingdom : The three-day European Athletics Indoor Championships will end in the Emirates Arena .
• Montgomery / United States : Tornadoes kill 23 people in Lee County, Alabama .
• Pruszków / Poland : The 109th Track Cycling World Championships are coming to an end in the BGŻ BNP Paribas Arena .
• Tallinn / Estonia : In the parliamentary elections in Estonia , the opposition Liberal Reform Party (RE) under Kaja Kallas once again became the strongest force with 28.9 percent of the votes cast.
• Vilnius / Lithuania : Local elections in Lithuania 2019

Monday 4th March 2019

Tuesday 5th March 2019

• Bern / Switzerland : The Swiss National Bank has presented the 1000-franc banknote from the 9th series of Swiss banknotes.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission has imposed fines totaling 368,277,000 euros on the Swedish company for automotive safety systems , Autoliv , and the US company ZF TRW , which was acquired by the German ZF Friedrichshafen , for a violation of EU antitrust regulations . The Japanese company Takata was fined for having acted as a key witness to inform the Commission of the cartel. The product markets affected were the markets for seat belts , air cushions ( airbags ) and timing wheels for supplying the automobile manufacturers BMW and Volkswagen .
• Los Angeles / United States : The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is awarded this year's Pritzker Prize .
• Munich / Germany : National coach Joachim Löw announces that Mats Hummels , Thomas Müller and Jérôme Boateng will no longer be part of the national soccer team .
• Palikir / Micronesia : Congress elections of the Federated States of Micronesia , in which ten representatives of the constituencies and four senators are elected.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Foundation officially confirms that two Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded in autumn 2019 , one of them retrospectively for 2018. The award was canceled due to an internal crisis in the Swedish Academy .

Wednesday March 6, 2019

Thursday March 7th 2019

• Alexandria , United States : Political advisor Paul Manafort is sentenced to 47 months in prison by a United States District Court for tax evasion and bank fraud. A ruling on further indictments in the US District Court in Washington is awaited for obstruction of justice, lobbying for former Ukrainian politicians and conspiracy against the United States.
• Helsinki / Finland , Tallinn / Estonia : The Chinese investment company Touchstone Capital Partners and the tunneling company FinEst Bay Area Development, under the direction of Peter Vesterbacka, are ready for around 15 billion euros as part of the Belt and Road infrastructure initiative (New Silk Road) to invest in the construction project of a tunnel under the Gulf of Finland between Tallinn and Helsinki as part of Rail Baltica . In the future planned joint metropolitan region called Talsinki , economic development is to be supported. Geological preliminary planning is currently still taking place.
• Limburg an der Lahn / Germany : The juvenile criminal chamber of the regional court sentenced four suspects to several years imprisonment, among other things for running the child pornography website Elysium .
• Lyon / France : The Archbishop of Lyon , Philippe Barbarin , has been sentenced to a suspended sentence by the criminal court (tribunal correctionnel) in Lyon for covering up allegations of sexual abuse .
• Östersund / Sweden : Opening of the 50th Biathlon World Championships , which will take place until March 17th.

Friday March 8, 2019

• Berlin / Germany : In the state of Berlin, Women's Day is celebrated as a non-working public holiday for the first time .
• Helsinki / Finland : The Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä ( center ) has announced his resignation before the upcoming parliamentary election . The background is a failed reform of the social and care system.
• Sofia / Bulgaria : Start of the Short Track World Championships (until March 10th)

Saturday 9th March 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Foreign Office is tightening travel and security information for Turkey against the background of increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Turkey .
• Berlin / Germany : The leader of the Left faction , Sahra Wagenknecht , has to withdraw from the top of her co-founded in September 2018 political rally movement getting announced.
• Chemnitz / Germany : At the home game of the regional soccer division Chemnitzer FC against VSG Altglienicke , there is a mourning action on the occasion of a recently deceased hooligan active in the right-wing scene. As a result, there are several resignations and dismissals in the association, which files a criminal complaint itself.
• Villavicencio / Colombia : When a Douglas DC-3 plane crashes , all 14 occupants are killed.

Sunday March 10th 2019

• Bissau / Guinea-Bissau : parliamentary elections
• Bishoftu / Ethiopia : The crash of an airplane of Ethiopian Airlines type Boeing 737 MAX 8 all 149 passengers and eight crew members on board are killed.
• Mainz / Germany : Christian Ehring , Dota , BlöZinger , Lara Stoll and Willi Resetarits are awarded the German Cabaret Prize.
• Pyongyang / North Korea : general election
• Ramallah / Palestine : After the resignation of the Palestinian government under Rami Hamdallah , President Mahmoud Abbas appoints his long-time ally Mohammed Shtajjeh as the new Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian Territories .
• Salzburg / Austria : municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg
• Whistler / Canada : Last day of the combined bobsleigh and skeleton world championships

Monday March 11, 2019

• Algiers / Algeria : Incumbent Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika withdraws his candidacy in the presidential election planned for April 18 and at the same time announces their postponement. At the same time, he is replacing Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia with the previous Minister of the Interior, Noureddine Bedoui, and he is assisting him in the newly created post of Deputy Prime Minister Ramatane Lamamra , previously Bouteflika's diplomatic advisor.
• Brussels / Belgium : The assassin Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed four people in the city's Jewish Museum on May 24, 2014 , is sentenced to life imprisonment, his accomplice Nacer Bendrer to 15 years in prison.
• Nairobi / Kenya : The 4th UN Environment Conference will take place from March 11th to 15th .

Tuesday March 12, 2019

• Biscay : Around 330 kilometers off the French coast, the cargo ship Grande America sinks after a fire. Among other things, around 2000 vehicles, 45 containers with dangerous goods and 2200 tons of heavy oil in the tanks were on board. As a result, a mile-long oil slick spreads .
• After numerous airlines around the world have suspended operations with the Boeing 737 MAX 8 since the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia, either voluntarily or on instructions from national aviation safety authorities due to safety concerns, the European Aviation Safety Agency has declared the entire EU airspace to be closed to aircraft of the types Boeing 737 MAX

Wednesday March 13, 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers honors the parents of the murdered Maria Ladenburger with the citizens' award of the German newspapers .
• After a wave of international operating bans due to safety concerns, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 ceased operations worldwide .

Thursday March 14, 2019

• Baikonur Cosmodrome / Kazakhstan : Launch of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-12 with the space travelers Alexei Ovtschinin , Tyler Hague and Christina Hammock Koch . Hammock-Koch is planned for the longest space stay of a woman to date.
• Tesla presents the Model Y based on the Model 3 .
• Washington, DC , United States : According to US Federal Aviation Chairman Dan Elwell, Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft pose a "commercial aviation safety hazard" and are expected to last for months stay on the ground.

Friday 15th March 2019

• International : The Fridays for Future (FFF) movement calls for the Global Climate Strike For Future , a worldwide school strike to save the planet. Participants are particularly expected in Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and the United States. A global general strike (Earth Strike) is also planned for September 27, 2019.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council approves the digital pact and the necessary amendment to the Basic Law.
• Christchurch / New Zealand : 51 people are killed in an attack on two mosques .

Saturday March 16, 2019

• Bratislava / Slovakia : presidential election (first ballot).
• Berlin / Germany : On the German Day of the Junge Union , the Lower Saxony lawyer Tilman Kuban is elected as the new federal chairman of the youth organization of the Union parties .

Sunday 17th March 2019

• Manila / Philippines : The Philippines are officially no longer a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
• Melbourne / Australia : The 70th season of the Formula 1 World Championship begins with the Australian Grand Prix

Monday March 18, 2019

• Dresden / Germany : The trial for the killing of Daniel H. begins on August 25, 2018 in Chemnitz on the premises of the Higher Regional Court .
• Utrecht / Netherlands : At least three people were killed and five others were injured in an attack in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht . Mark Rutte , the Dutch Prime Minister, did not rule out a terrorist motive.
• Berlin / Germany : The German journalist Billy Six landed back in Berlin after 119 days in a Venezuelan prison.

Tuesday March 19, 2019

• Graz / Austria : At the start of this year's Diagonale , Birgit Minichmayr was awarded the Great Drama Prize. The festival ends on March 24th.
• Oslo / Norway : The Norwegian Academy of Sciences announces the award of the Abel Prize to the American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck . The handover is scheduled for May 21st.

Wednesday March 20, 2019

• The Hague / Netherlands : The Forum voor Democratie will be the strongest force in the provincial elections .
• Luxemburg / Luxemburg : Andreas Kumin succeeds Maria Berger as Austrian judge at the European Court of Justice .
• Only Sultan / Kazakhstan : The capital of Kazakhstan is in honor of the long-term, divorced from office President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Astana in only Sultan renamed.

Thursday March 21, 2019

• Leipzig / Germany : Start of the Leipzig Book Fair (until March 24th)
• Rome / Italy : The President of the International Volleyball Federation , Ary Graça , announces the award of the Beach Volleyball World Championship 2021 to the Italian capital. The venue will be the Foro Italico .
• San Francisco / United States : The German-language Wikipedia , which has existed since March 2001, was offline for 24 hours. The volunteer Wikipedia authors want to set an example against the planned copyright reform of the European Union . Among other things, this provides for an ancillary copyright for press publishers as well as the obligations for copyright protection for Internet platforms anchored in Article 13. Critics fear that the upload filter will cause censorship on the Internet .
• Yancheng / People's Republic of China : An explosion after a fire in the Jiangsu TianJiaYi Chemical Co., Ltd. At least 47 people die and several hundred are injured, some seriously. The plant produces plant protection products and their intermediate products, mainly phenylenediamines .

Friday 22nd March 2019

• Geneva / Switzerland : In the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices which are Swiss Film Prizes awarded.

Saturday 23rd March 2019

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Demonstration "Put It to the People" in London (video)

• Beira / Mozambique : After cyclone Idai and subsequent rains, hundreds of thousands in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in East Africa are affected by the cyclone and floods.
• Leonding / Austria : The Austrian Cycling Federation elects a new chairman. After 23 years in office, President Otto Flum will not run again.
• London / United Kingdom : With a large demonstration and millions of signatories of an online petition, citizens are demonstrating for another referendum on Brexit and for Europe.
• Sydney / Australia : General elections in the state of New South Wales .
• al-Baghuz Fawqani / Syria : in the battle of Baghuz the last bastions of the Islamist terrorist militias on the border with Iraq were leveled. With the hoisting of the flag by the SDF, the victory over the self-proclaimed Caliphate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is declared.
• Mopti / Mali region : around 160 Fulani shepherds are murdered, mainly in the villages of Ogossagou and Welington . The Dogon militia Dan Na Ambassagou is accused of the crime .

Sunday March 24th 2019

• Bangkok / Thailand : General Election
• Oslo / Norway : On the Holmenkollen goes Biathlon World Cup 2018/19 to an end.
• Quebec / Canada : End of the 2018/19 Cross Country World Cup .
• Saitama / Japan : The World Figure Skating Championships come to an end in the Super Arena .
• Salzburg / Austria : mayoral elections are held in eleven municipalities, including the city of Salzburg.
• Zurich / Switzerland : elections in the Canton of Zurich 2019

Monday 25th March 2019

• Paris / France : The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly , formed on the basis of the Franco-German Parliamentary Agreement and finalized in the Treaty of Aachen 2019 , consisting of 50 members each from both national parliaments, meets for the first time.
• Washington, DC / United States : The Golan Heights are formally recognized by the United States as part of Israel .

Tuesday March 26, 2019

• Strasbourg / France : The EU Parliament decides on the copyright reform of the European Union and the abolition of the half-yearly time change .

Wednesday March 27, 2019

• India : The Indian armed forces are testing an anti-satellite missile and shooting down their own Microsat-R satellite .
• Strasbourg / France : MEP Julia Reda resigns from the pirate party .

Thursday March 28, 2019

• Reykjavík / Iceland : The Icelandic low-cost airline WOW air ceases its flight operations.
• Doha / Qatar : The National Museum of Qatar , designed by Jean Nouvel , opens to the public.

Friday March 29, 2019

• New York / United States : In Barclays Center are The Cure , Def Leppard , Janet Jackson , Stevie Nicks , Radiohead , Roxy Music and The Zombies officially entered the Fame Rock and Roll Hall of added.
• Vienna / Austria : Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , Christian Frosch's Murer - Anatomy of a Process and Ruth Beckermann's Waldheim's Walzer were awarded the Papierenen Gustl as the best film of 2018.

Saturday 30th March 2019

• Berlin / Germany : The Golden Camera 2019 will be awarded on the grounds of the former Tempelhof Airport .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : presidential election (runoff).

Sunday March 31, 2019

• Ankara / Turkey : Local elections in all 81 provinces of Turkey
• Kiev / Ukraine : Presidential election (1st round)
• Fulda / Germany: Inauguration of Michael Gerberdes as 18th Bishop of Fulda

See also

• Nekrolog March 2019 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March

Web links

Commons : March 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published March 2019  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 25 Soldiers Killed In Clash Over Military Base With Taliban In Afghanistan. In: ndtv.com. March 1, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Taliban fighters try to storm base in Helmand province housing US Marines and Afghan forces. In: marinecorpstimes.com. March 1, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Susannah Cullinane, Joe Sterling: 5 minutes of warning, then tornadoes so powerful they killed 23 people in Alabama. In: CNN . March 4, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Antitrust law: Commission imposes fines of EUR 368 million on suppliers of vehicle safety equipment in cartel settlement proceedings. In: europa.eu . March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Japanese Arata Isozaki receives this year's Pritzker Prize. Deutschlandfunk , March 5, 2019, accessed on the same day.
6. ↑ Löw no longer plans with Müller, Boateng and Hummels. Spiegel Online, March 5, 2019, accessed on the same day.
7. ↑ In 2019 two Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded. Spiegel Online, March 5, 2019, accessed on the same day.
8. ↑ Court sentenced Manafort to 47 months in prison. Spiegel Online, March 8, 2019, accessed on the same day.
9. ↑ Finland's connection to Rail Baltica becomes concrete: the Chinese want to invest 15 billion in the Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel. In: nordisch.info. March 8, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 (German). 
10. ^ Wiebke Ramm : Administrators of the Abyss. Spiegel Online, March 7, 2019, accessed on the same day.
11. ^ Zeit Online: Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has resigned. Zeit Online, March 8, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Foreign Office: Foreign Office - Turkey: Travel and Security Advice. Retrieved March 9, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Warning of arrests: Foreign Office tightened travel advice for Turkey . In: Spiegel Online . March 9, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 9, 2019]).
14. ↑ Fatalities in plane crash in Colombia. ORF, March 10, 2019, accessed on the same day.
15. ↑ Mohammed Shtayyeh becomes head of the Palestinian government. In: derstandard.at . March 10, 2019, accessed March 1, 2019 . 
16. ^ Lifelong imprisonment for attackers on the Jewish Museum. Spiegel Online, March 12, 2013, accessed on the same day.
17. ^ Fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4). In: sdg.iisd.org. Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
18. ^ Oil spill off the French Atlantic coast. Spiegel Online, March 13, 2019, accessed the day after.
19. ↑ EASA suspends all Boeing 737 Max operations in Europe. In: EASA. March 12, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Tesla pickup will be presented "later this year"> Teslamag.de. March 4, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 (German). 
21. ↑ 737 Max remains on the ground for months. In: tagesschau.de . March 14, 2019, accessed March 14, 2019 . 
22. ↑ https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/
23. ↑ https://www.earth-strike.com/about-us/
24. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/digitalpakt-bundesrat-101.html
25. ↑ Several dead in attacks on mosques in New Zealand. Zeit Online, March 15, 2019, accessed on the same day.
26. ↑ 40 dead in attack on mosques
27. ↑ Gruhner fails in his election as JU boss. In: mdr.de . March 16, 2019, accessed March 16, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Exit of the Philippines from the International Criminal Court. In: nau.ch . March 17, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 . 
29. ^ Report on contradictions in investigations in Chemnitz Spiegel Online, February 27, 2019, accessed on the same day.
30. ↑ [ http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/utrecht-schuesse-in-strassenbahn-polizei-fahndet-nach-37-jaehrigem-a-1258443.html ] Spiegel Online, March 18, 2019, accessed on same days.
31. ^ Diagonale: Acting award for Birgit Minichmayr. ORF, February 13, 2019, accessed on the same day.
32. ^ Karen Uhlenbeck first woman to win the Abel Prize. Academy press release of March 19, 2019, accessed on the same day. (English)
33. ↑ Austria's new ECJ judge officially appointed. ORF, March 7, 2019, accessed on the same day.
34. ↑ Kazakh capital renamed Nursultan. Deutsche Welle, March 20, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 . 
35. ↑ WM 2021 awarded to Rome. ORF, March 21, 2019, accessed on the same day.
36. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180409183045/http://www.nijiaxiangchem.com/wap_about_en.html
37. ↑ aar / dpa / AFP: China: At least 47 dead after explosion in chemical plant. In: Spiegel Online . March 22, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
38. ↑ Unicef ​​warns of epidemics in Southeast Africa , Spiegel online, March 23, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2019.
39. ↑ Flum resigns as president after 23 years. ORF, March 20, 2019, accessed on March 22, 2019.
40. ↑ Demonstration of historic proportions , tagesschau.de, March 24, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2019.
41. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/weiter_gremien/deutsch_franzoesische_ammlung
42. ↑ Ulrich Pfeil in conversation with Anja Reinhardt: Franco-German Assembly - "Bringing Europe closer to the citizens" (archive). In: deutschlandfunk.de. March 24, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
43. ↑ Zeit.de: Donald Trump recognizes Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights
44. ↑ Berlin and Frankfurt affected: Wow Air has to cease operations . In: Spiegel Online . March 28, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed on March 28, 2019]).
45. ↑ Announcing the Official Class of 2019 Inductees. Announcement on the Hall of Fame website, accessed March 24, 2019
46. ↑ Golden Camera 2019: Audience Award . Retrieved February 10, 2019.