11. Escape of explorer and naturalist Francisco P. Moreno, 1880. Captured by the tribe of Chief Sheihueque while exploring Patagonia, he was sentenced to death. He managed to escape and after several days reached the city of Bahía Blanca.
11. British take Baghdad, Mesopotamia, 1917.
11. Turkish forces reocuppy Erzurum, Armenia, 1918.
11. General Douglas Mac Arthur leaves Luzon, 1942.
12. Signature of the mobilization executive order that gave rise to the first Argentine draft, 1896. The National Guard, organized definitively in 1852 after the Battle of Caseros, set a precedent for compulsory military service, as its members became part of the active reserve of the line army. At the time of the War with Paraguay, an executive order established a draft of voluntary contracted soldiers and also recruitment by levies. Years later, in view of a possible conflict with the Republic of Chile over territorial limits, it was decided to draft all citizens aged 20. Among the 12 marshalling points organized around the country pursuant to the executive order signed by the President of the Republic, José E. Uriburu, the largest one was located in Cura Malal and it was there that during 60 days the draftees from the City and Province of Buenos Aires received their military training. The site –which name means "stone cattle pen" in the Mapuche language, is a hilly zone in the South West of the Province of Buenos Aires and was selected to acquaint the citizens who came from the plains with exercises connected with possible Andean operations. This trial, carried out nation-wide, was very successful and the start of a system of drafting whole cohorts into the Armed Forces that lasted for one hundred years, until it was abolished in the last decade of the 20th Century. Major and Band Conductor Juan Ríspoli (Italy 1847-Argentina 1907), wrote the march called Cura Malal, as a tribute to the first Argentine draft. The march was published by Tradition in TR020101.
12. Finland capitulates to Soviet Union, 1940.
13. Considered to be the date of creation of the Argentine Arms or National Crest by the General Constitutional Assembly, 1813.
13. China breaks diplomatic relations with Germany, 1917.
15. Then Navy Lieutenant Colonel William Brown leading a party of men, gains control of the Island Martín García, which dominated the access to the Uruguay River thanks to its coastal artillery. Saint Patrick's day in the morning published by Tradition in TR020102.
15. Tsar Nicholas II abdicates, Russia, 1917.
15. German forces enter Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1939.
16. Inauguration of the National Library, 1812. It was created as a result of an initiative of Mariano Moreno.
17. Letter of General San Martín to the Cabildo (Legislature) of Santiago de Chile, 1817. Written from Mendoza, during a trip to Buenos Aires, San Martín asked the Cabildo to make available the 10.000 pesos in gold ounces that had been allocated to him, to establish a national library. It should be noted that at the time San Martin could barely cover the expenses of the trip that he was undertaking.
17. Aristide Briand government falls in France, 1917.
18. The French squadron set up a blockade of the Port of Buenos Aires, 1838.
18. Failed Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles, 1915.
19. Battle of Cancha Rayada, 1818. Royalist forces attacked the camping grounds of the Army of the Andes, managing to overcome the defenses and inflicting large losses of men and materiel. Colonel Juan Gregorio de Las Heras succeeded in organizing an effective defense with his unit, the 11th Line, but did not manage to contain the Spanish attack.
19. First case of cholera in the city of Rosario, 1867. It was established that the disease had come from Corrientes, which in turn had received it from the Allied Army in the War with Paraguay.
19. North Vietnamese attack on Quang Tri Province, 1975.
20. Battle of Membrillar, 1814. Chilean General Bernardo O'Higgins defeated the army commanded by General Gainza. The Independence forces included the column of Auxiliares de Chile, an Argentine infantry corps sent to assist the Chilean revolution by the Buenos Aires Government Junta, headed at the time by Major Juan Gregorio de Las Heras.
20. The Director of Chile, General Bernardo O'Higgins, extended to General José de San Martín the commission of Brigadier General of the Armies of Chile.
20. German forces occupy Hungary, 1944.
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