** Haliotis tuberculata marmorata Linnaeus, 1758 – synonyms: Haliotis virginea – the Virgin abalone, Haliotis rosacea, the rosy abalone

** Virgin of Montserrat

** Virgin birth of Jesus

** Imperial Princess Ihane-hime or Ihakumo, Ise Virgin ; had to resign her charge being convicted of intrigue with her half brother Imperial Prince Mubaragi

** Virgin of Candelaria ( Tenerife, Spain )

** Margaret the Virgin

** The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland

** Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

** Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a Holm Oak tree in Cova da Iria near Fátima, Portugal.

** Francisco Marto, Beatified, claimed to witness apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 at Fátima, Portugal ( b. 1908 )

** Jacinta Marto, Beatified, witnessed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 at Fátima, Portugal ( b. 1910 )

** Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.

** Vestal Virgin –

** This prayer asks that the Divine Trinity may receive the oblation being made in remembrance of the passion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus and in honour of blessed Mary ever Virgin and the other saints, " that it may avail to their honour and our salvation: and that they may vouchsafe to intercede for us in heaven ..."

** Virgin Records announces that they have signed the Sex Pistols.

** A nickname for Virgin Trains ' British Rail Class 57, often used as such due to the aforementioned 60s television programme

** Virgin Shroud ( 1993 )

**. vg, the country code top-level domain for the British Virgin Islands

** Virgin Festival — a North American version of the V Festival

** Virgin Australia — an Australian-based airline

** Virgin Samoa — a Samoan-based airline

** Blue Holidays — The holiday programme of Virgin Australia, now a joint venture between Virgin Australia

** Virgin Cola — carbonated cola soft drink

** C. v. mexicanus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )-eastern United States west of Atlantic Seaboard to Great Plains

** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.

** At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

** Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U. S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.

** WWII: Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2, 300.

** 150 women ( members of New York Radical Women ) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women.

** An annular solar eclipse is seen on Atlantic Ocean and Africa.

** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

** British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

** Gemini 12 ( James A. Lovell, Buzz Aldrin ), splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km east of the Bahamas.

** A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola ( the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites ).

** The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.

** The North Atlantic Cooperation Council ( NAC-C ) meets for the first time, the day on which the Soviet Union ceases to exist. source

** A Solar Eclipse passes along the Atlantic coast region.

** Intelsat IV ( F2 ) is launched ; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.

** Intelsat IV ( F3 ) is launched ; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.

** The wreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.

** The third hurricane of the season, the first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific basin into the Atlantic basin, occurred in Oaxaca.

** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.

** In the Atlantic

** Brevoortia tyrannus ( Atlantic menhaden )

** Archosargus rhomboidalis, Western Atlantic seabream