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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: Derek Longmuir, Of the Pop group, 'Bay City Rollers'
Birthday: 19/3/1955: Bruce Willis, American television and film actor
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: William Shatner, American actor (Captain Kirk of 'Star Trek')
Birthday: 22/3/1931: Leslie Thomas, Writer of 'The Virgin Soldiers'
Birthday: 22/3/1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of 'Phantom of the Opera' & 'Cats'
Birthday: 22/3/1949: Jockey Wilson, Darts player
Birthday: 23/3/1887: Juan Gris, Spanish painter
Birthday: 23/3/1920: Jimmy Edwards, Actor and comedian
Birthday: 23/3/1921: Donald Campbell, Land and water speed record breaker
Birthday: 23/3/1929: Roger Bannister, First athlete to break 'Four Minute' mile barrier
Birthday: 23/3/1935: Barry Cryer, Scriptwriter and comedian
Birthday: 23/3/1966: Marti Pellow, Of the Pop group 'Wet Wet Wet'
Birthday: 23/3/1990: Princess Eugenie, Daughter of Prince Andrew & Duchess of York
Birthday: 24/3/1887: Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor
Birthday: 24/3/1917: Sir John Kendrew, Nobel Prize winning chemist
Birthday: 24/3/1930: Steve McQueen, American film actor
Birthday: 24/3/1945: Patrick Malahide, Actor, TV roles include 'Minder' &'Middlemarch'
Birthday: 24/3/1947: Alan Sugar, Business Tycoon (Amstrad)
Birthday: 24/3/1947: Archie Gemmill, Former Scottish footballer
Birthday: 24/3/1951: Peter Powell, Former Radio One DJ
Birthday: 25/3/1867: Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor
Birthday: 25/3/1908: David Lean, British film director
Birthday: 25/3/1920: Patrick Throughton, Film and TV actor; the second 'Dr Who'
Birthday: 25/3/1932: Peter Walker, Conservative politician
Birthday: 25/3/1944: Paul Michael Glaser, American actor; 'Starsky & Hutch'
Birthday: 25/3/1947: Elton John, Pop singer/writer
Birthday: 25/3/1951: Maisie Williams, Of the Pop group 'Boney M'
Birthday: 25/3/1952: Robert Fox, Stage, screen and television actor
Birthday: 25/3/1960: Steve Norman, of 'Spandau Ballet'
Birthday: 26/3/1859: A.E Housman, English poet
Birthday: 26/3/1886: Chico Marx, US Comedian of the famous 'Marx Brothers'
Birthday: 26/3/1911: Tennessee Williams, American novelist and playwright
Birthday: 26/3/1925: Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor
Birthday: 26/3/1931: Leonard Nimoy, US actor known as Mr Spock of 'Star Trek'
Birthday: 26/3/1940: James Caan, American film actor; 'Rollerball' & 'Misery'
Birthday: 26/3/1944: Diana Ross, American singer
Birthday: 26/3/1963: Susanne Sulley, Of the Pop group 'Human League'
Birthday: 27/3/1845: Wilhelm von Rontgen, German discoverer of X-Rays
Birthday: 27/3/1863: Sir Henry Royce, The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame
Birthday: 27/3/1897: Gloria Swanson, American stage and film actress
Birthday: 27/3/1912: Lord James Callaghan, Labour politician & former Prime minister
Birthday: 27/3/1919: Lord Amery, Conservative politician
Birthday: 27/3/1927: Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
Birthday: 27/3/1942: Michael York, British born film actor
Birthday: 27/3/1950: Tony Banks, Of the Pop group 'Genisis'
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
Event: 23/3/1752: Canadas first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, began publication
Event: 23/3/1861: London's first trams starting operating in Bayswater
Event: 23/3/1891: Goal nets were used for the first time in an FA cup final
Event: 23/3/1919: In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist Party
Event: 23/3/1925: The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution was banned in Tennessee schools
Event: 23/3/1965: The American manned Gemini spacecraft made three Earth orbits
Event: 23/3/1971: Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, proclaimed its independence
Event: 23/3/1985: Ben Hardwicke, Britains youngest liver transplant patient, died aged 3
Event: 23/3/1991: Prime Minister John Major announced plans for his 'Citizens Charter'
Event: 24/3/1603: Queen Elizabeth I died after reigning for almost 45 years
Event: 24/3/1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet author of 'Hiawatha', died
Event: 24/3/1887: History was made, when there was a dead heat in the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race
Event: 24/3/1926: The first Safeway's Supermarket was opened in Maryland, USA
Event: 24/3/1942: The national loaf was introduced in Britain
Event: 24/3/1958: Elvis Presley signed up for the United States army
Event: 24/3/1983: Barney Clark, the first human to be given a permanent artificial heart, died after 112 days
Event: 24/3/1986: At least 8 people died, when hurricane force winds swept across the UK
Event: 24/3/1994: The new Jewel House, at the Tower of London, was opened by the Queen
Event: 25/3/1306: Robert the Bruce was crowned King of the Scots
Event: 25/3/1807: The slave trade in England was abolished by the British Parliament
Event: 25/3/1843: The Thames Tunnel for pedestrians was opened, linking Wapping and Rotherhithe
Event: 25/3/1879: Leicestershire County Cricket Club was founded
Event: 25/3/1925: Greece became a republic when King George was deposed
Event: 25/3/1949: 'Hamlet' became the first British film to win an Oscar (actually won five in total)
Event: 25/3/1957: The treaty of Rome was signed by six nations, to establish the European Economic Community
Event: 25/3/1980: Robert Runcie became the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury
Event: 26/3/1885: The first cremation in Britain took place in Surrey, at the Woking Crematorium
Event: 26/3/1923: A daily weather forecast was broadcast by the BBC for the first time
Event: 26/3/1934: Driving tests were first introduced in Britain
Event: 26/3/1958: Parking Tickets were first issued to motorists in London
Event: 26/3/1973: The actor and playwright Sir Noel Coward died in Jamaica
Event: 26/3/1981: The Social Democratic Party was launched by the 'Gang of Four'
Event: 26/3/1985: Ben Kingsley won the best actor Academy Award, for his portrayal of Ghandi
Event: 26/3/1992: Terry Waite announced his resignation as the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy
Event: 27/3/1625: King James I of Great Britain died
Event: 27/3/1794: The United States Navy was founded
Event: 27/3/1807: The asteroid Vesta was discovered
Event: 27/3/1871: In the first ever international rugby match, Scotland beat England at Edinburgh
Event: 27/3/1914: The first successful blood transfusion was performed
Event: 27/3/1923: The inventor of the vacuum flask, Sir James Dewar, died in London
Event: 27/3/1931: Arnold Bennett, the English novelist, died of Typhoid
Event: 27/3/1948: Nikita Krushchev became the new leader of the Soviet Union
Event: 27/3/1968: The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was killed in a plane crash
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