This Day in History for March 19

1979 - the US House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business.

1859 - the opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.

1917 - the Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads.

1918 - Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.

1931 - Nevada legalized gambling.

1945 - about eight hundred people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the US carrier Franklin off Japan; the ship, however, was saved.

1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.

1953 - the Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time; "The Greatest Show on Earth" was named best picture of 1952.

1976 - Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.

1985 - in a legislative victory for President Reagan, the Senate voted, 55-to-45, to authorize production of the MX missile.

1987 - televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary from Oklahoma.

1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire. (White's departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court's second female justice.)