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Birthday: 12/3/1710: Thomas Arne, Composer of operas and 'Rule Brittania'
Birthday: 12/3/1908: Max Wall, English comedian and actor
Birthday: 12/3/1925: Gordon McRae, American film actor; 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel'
Birthday: 12/3/1942: Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group
Birthday: 12/3/1946: Liza Minnelli, Singer, and actress daughter of Judy Garland
Birthday: 12/3/1948: Virginia Bottomley, Conservative politician
Birthday: 12/3/1950: Willie Duggan, Irish rugby international
Birthday: 13/3/1855: Percival Lowell, American astronomer
Birthday: 13/3/1860: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer
Birthday: 13/3/1884: Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist
Birthday: 13/3/1939: Neil Sedaka, Popular singer/songwriter
Birthday: 13/3/1939: Terence Brady, Playwright and novelist
Birthday: 13/3/1950: Joe Bugner, Former British heavy weight boxing champion
Birthday: 13/3/1960: Adam Clayton, Of the Pop group 'U2'
Birthday: 14/3/1804: Johann Strauss Snr, Austrian composer
Birthday: 14/3/1836: Isabella Beeton, Writer on cookery (Mrs Beetons Cookery Book)
Birthday: 14/3/1879: Albert Einstein, Scientific Genius, (Theory of Relativity)
Birthday: 14/3/1915: Bill Owen, Stage & TV actor ('Compo' in 'Last of the Summer Wine')
Birthday: 14/3/1933: Michael Caine, Actor of stage and films
Birthday: 14/3/1945: Jasper Carott, English comedian
Birthday: 14/3/1947: Pam Ayres, English poet
Birthday: 14/3/1956: Tessa Sanderson, English Javelin champion
Birthday: 15/3/1767: Andrew Jackson, Twice President of the United States
Birthday: 15/3/1916: Harry James, Well known American band leader and trumpeter
Birthday: 15/3/1940: Frank Dobson, Labour politician
Birthday: 15/3/1941: Mike Love, Member of the 'Beach Boys' group
Birthday: 15/3/1948: John Duttine, Stage, television and film actor
Birthday: 15/3/1954: Isobel Buchanan, Soprano singer
Birthday: 15/3/1962: Terence Trent D'Arby, American Pop singer
Birthday: 16/3/1751: James Madison, Former (4th) American President
Birthday: 16/3/1868: Maksim Gorky, Russian author
Birthday: 16/3/1920: Leo McKern, Australian actor of stage and screen
Birthday: 16/3/1926: Jerry Lewis, American comedian & partner of Dean Martin
Birthday: 16/3/1951: Kate Nelligan, Actress
Birthday: 16/3/1954: Jimmy Nail, Singer and actor
Birthday: 16/3/1954: Nancy Wilson, Pop singer with the group 'Heart'
Birthday: 17/3/1846: Kate Greenaway, English illustrator
Birthday: 17/3/1919: Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist
Birthday: 17/3/1933: Penelope Lively, Novelist
Birthday: 17/3/1938: Rudolf Nureyev, World renowned Russian ballet dancer
Birthday: 17/3/1939: Robin Knox-Johnson, The first solo round the world yachtsman
Birthday: 17/3/1941: Clarence Clemons, Of the group 'E Street Band'
Birthday: 17/3/1949: Patrick Duffy, American television actor; 'Dallas'
Birthday: 17/3/1954: Lesley-Ann Down, English television & film actress
Birthday: 18/3/1844: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer
Birthday: 18/3/1858: Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine
Birthday: 18/3/1869: Neville Chamberlain, Former prime minister
Birthday: 18/3/1905: Robert Donat, English stage and film actor
Birthday: 18/3/1939: Kenny Lynch, Singer and actor
Birthday: 18/3/1939: Ron Atkinson, Football manager
Birthday: 18/3/1949: Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, Irish snooker player
Birthday: 18/3/1952: Pat Eddery, Champion jockey
Birthday: 19/3/1813: Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer & opponent of slave trade
Birthday: 19/3/1848: Wyatt Earp, American Lawman
Birthday: 19/3/1928: Patrick McGoohan, Actor; played 'The Prisoner' on television
Birthday: 19/3/1933: Philip Roth, American novelist
Birthday: 19/3/1946: Ursula Andress, Film actress
Birthday: 19/3/1955: Bruce Willis, American television and film actor
Birthday: 19/3/1955: Derek Longmuir, Of the Pop group, 'Bay City Rollers'
Birthday: 19/3/1964: Courtney Pine, Modern jazz saxophonist
Birthday: 20/3/1828: Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet
Birthday: 20/3/1890: Benjamino Gigli, World renowned Italian operatic tenor
Birthday: 20/3/1908: Sir Michael Redgrave, Actor of stage and screen
Birthday: 20/3/1917: Dame Vera Lynn, Singer and wartime 'Forces Sweetheart'
Birthday: 20/3/1937: Jerry Reed, Country music guitarist
Birthday: 20/3/1950: William Hurt, American film actor
Birthday: 20/3/1956: Philip Oppenheim, Conservative politician
Birthday: 20/3/1961: Slim Jim Phantom, Of the Pop group 'Stray Cats'
Birthday: 21/3/1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
Birthday: 21/3/1869: Florenz Ziegfield, American impresario
Birthday: 21/3/1935: Brian Clough, Outspoken and renowned football manager
Birthday: 21/3/1936: Roger Whitaker , Singer/songwriter
Birthday: 21/3/1943: Vivian Stanshall, Of the 'Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band'
Birthday: 21/3/1946: Timothy Dalton, English actor of stage and screen
Birthday: 21/3/1963: Matthew Broderick, American actor
Birthday: 22/3/1599: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish artist
Birthday: 22/3/1910: Nicholas Monsarrat, English author
Birthday: 22/3/1923: Marcel Marceau, French Mime artist
Birthday: 22/3/1930: Stephen Sondheim, American songwriter
Birthday: 22/3/1931: Leslie Thomas, Writer of 'The Virgin Soldiers'
Birthday: 22/3/1931: William Shatner, American actor (Captain Kirk of 'Star Trek')
Birthday: 22/3/1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of 'Phantom of the Opera' & 'Cats'
Birthday: 22/3/1949: Jockey Wilson, Darts player
Event: 12/3/1917: Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, was founded
Event: 12/3/1935: A speed limit of 30mph was introduced in British towns and built up areas
Event: 12/3/1941: Hebrides islanders hid from government officials, thousands of bottles of Whiskey from a shipwreck
Event: 12/3/1955: American jazzman Charlie 'Bird' Parker died, aged 35
Event: 12/3/1968: Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, was granted independence after 158 years of British rule
Event: 12/3/1969: Paul McCartney married the photographer Linda Eastman
Event: 12/3/1988: The use of Bank of England pound notes ended, having been replaced by pound coins
Event: 12/3/1992: A statue of Stan Laurel was erected near his former home in Dockway Square, North Shields
Event: 12/3/1994: The first women Anglican priests were ordained in Britain
Event: 13/3/1873: The Scottish Football Association was formed
Event: 13/3/1901: American President Benjamin Harrison died
Event: 13/3/1927: The British army ceased using the lance as an official weapon
Event: 13/3/1930: Clyde Tombaugh announced the discovery of the planet Pluto
Event: 13/3/1938: Nazi Germany invaded Austria, making it a German Reich province
Event: 13/3/1961: Black and white Bank of England five pound notes ceased to be legal tender
Event: 13/3/1967: Former West Indian cricketer Sir Frank Worrell died
Event: 13/3/1992: At least a thousand people were killed in eastern Turkey by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale
Event: 14/3/1883: Karl Marx, the German 'father of Communism', died
Event: 14/3/1932: George Eastman, the American photographic pioneer, died
Event: 14/3/1936: An airline service to Hong Kong was started
Event: 14/3/1961: A revised version of the New Testament was published
Event: 14/3/1964: Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death
Event: 14/3/1975: Susan Hayward, the Oscar winning actress, died
Event: 14/3/1990: The House of Commons was adjourned due to grave disorder, being the first time this had happened in 30 years
Event: 14/3/1992: Jimmy White won the European snooker championship
Event: 15/3/1887: The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia
Event: 15/3/1909: G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London
Event: 15/3/1919: The American Legion was founded
Event: 15/3/1937: The United States set up its first central blood bank
Event: 15/3/1945: Record album charts were first published in the United States
Event: 15/3/1964: Richard Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor in Montreal
Event: 15/3/1975: Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate & second husband of Jaqueline Kennedy, died
Event: 15/3/1983: A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts
Event: 15/3/1983: Rebbecca West, the British novelist, died
Event: 16/3/1802: West Point, the first United States Military Academy, was established
Event: 16/3/1900: The ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete was discovered
Event: 16/3/1926: Robert Goddard launched the first petrol & liquid oxygen powered rocket
Event: 16/3/1935: In Germany Hitler introduced conscription, renouncing the Treaty of Versailles
Event: 16/3/1970: A new revised edition of the Old Testament was published
Event: 16/3/1973: The Queen opened the new London Bridge, the previous one having been sold for 1 million pounds and rebuilt in the US
Event: 16/3/1976: Labour leader Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister
Event: 16/3/1983: A second letter bomb in 24hrs, addressed to the Prime Minister, was defused
Event: 16/3/1994: The High Court gave childminders the right to smack children in their care
Event: 17/3/1337: Edward the Black Prince became the first ever 'Duke', when he was made Duke of Cornwall
Event: 17/3/1649: Cromwell abolished the monarchy and declared England a Commonwealth
Event: 17/3/1899: The first ever radio distress signal was sent, from a ship off the Kent coast
Event: 17/3/1945: American forces defeated the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima
Event: 17/3/1958: The shape of the Earth was measured for the first time by satellite
Event: 17/3/1978: The oil-tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on the Brittany coast, & around 220,000 tons of oil was discharged into the sea
Event: 17/3/1983: The third letter bomb addressed to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in three days, was defused
Event: 17/3/1983: A copy of Lord Nelsons orders to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar was sold for 6,000 pounds
Event: 17/3/1988: The chess Euwe memorial tournament in Amsterdam was won by Nigel Short after a draw with Anatoly Karpov
Event: 18/3/1662: The first ever public buses were started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city
Event: 18/3/1745: Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, died
Event: 18/3/1850: The American Express company was formed in Buffalo, New York
Event: 18/3/1931: The first electric razors were made in the United States
Event: 18/3/1949: NATO was set up by seven European countries including Britain
Event: 18/3/1965: The Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space
Event: 18/3/1967: The tanker Torrey Cannon ran aground near Lands End, spilling large amounts of crude oil
Event: 18/3/1988: Broadcaster and gardening expert Percy Thrower died
Event: 18/3/1990: East Germanies first elections in over sixty years ended
Event: 19/3/1930: The former Conservative Prime Minister, Arthur James Balfour, died
Event: 19/3/1932: The Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened
Event: 19/3/1950: Edgar Rice Burroughs the US novelist, author of the 'Tarzan' books, died
Event: 19/3/1962: A three hundred year old skull was found under the grounds of 10 Downing Street
Event: 19/3/1976: The separation of Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret was announced
Event: 19/3/1982: A landing by an Argentinian scrap metal dealer on South Georgia led to the Falklands conflict
Event: 19/3/1986: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announced their engagement
Event: 20/3/1602: The Dutch East India Company was founded
Event: 20/3/1727: Isaac Newton, discoverer of the 'Laws of Gravity', died and was buried in Westminster Abbey
Event: 20/3/1806: The foundation stone of Dartmoor prison was laid
Event: 20/3/1956: Tunisia gained independence from France
Event: 20/3/1969: John Lennon, of the Beatles, married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
Event: 20/3/1974: An gunman tried (and failed) to kidnap Princess Anne from her car
Event: 20/3/1980: The Pirate radio ship, Radio Caroline, sank
Event: 20/3/1990: Namibia became an independent country after 105 years
Event: 20/3/1995: The Queen began a visit to South Africa, the first royal visit since the end of apartheid
Event: 21/3/1556: Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burnt at the stake in Oxford
Event: 21/3/1918: An offensive began on the Somme, the last major offensive of World War I
Event: 21/3/1946: Aneurin Bevan announced proposals for setting up a National Health Service
Event: 21/3/1952: Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her part in the film 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Event: 21/3/1958: The London Planetarium opened
Event: 21/3/1963: Alcatraz, maximum security prison on the island in San Francisco Bay, was closed after 29 years
Event: 21/3/1985: Sir Michael Redgrave, the English actor, died
Event: 21/3/1990: A London demonstration against the Poll Tax ended as a riot, with many arrests
Event: 22/3/1888: The English Football League was founded
Event: 22/3/1896: The writer of 'Tom Browns Schooldays', Thomas Hughes, died
Event: 22/3/1907: Taxi metres were used for the very first time in London cabs
Event: 22/3/1945: The Arab League was formed by seven Middle East countries
Event: 22/3/1946: The country of Jordan became independent from British rule
Event: 22/3/1958: Mike Todd US film producer, and creator of the Todd AO movie projection system, died
Event: 22/3/1983: Belfast born Chaim Herzog was elected president of the State of Israel
Event: 22/3/1994: Two films by Steven Speilberg won a total of ten Oscars
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