On this day — March 19

Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.

killing all 62 on board.

Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.

After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.

A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.

Finland.

Bush addresses the nation, announcing the invasion of Iraq.

killing all 45 on board.

marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.

Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.