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Birthday: 1/3/1810: Frederic Chopin, Polish composer
Birthday: 1/3/1904: Glenn Miller, American bandleader
Birthday: 1/3/1910: David Niven, Scottish born Hollywood film actor
Birthday: 1/3/1927: Harry Belafonte, American singer
Birthday: 1/3/1940: David Broome, Showjumper
Birthday: 1/3/1945: Roger Daltrey, English singer with 'The Who'; actor
Birthday: 1/3/1954: Ron Howard, US TV actor & film director; TV's 'Happy Days'
Birthday: 2/3/1793: Sam Houston, Texan leader
Birthday: 2/3/1923: Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westmister
Birthday: 2/3/1931: Mikhail Gorrbachev, Former soviet leader
Birthday: 2/3/1949: Naomi James, Yachtswoman and author
Birthday: 2/3/1949: J.P.R Williams, Welsh rugby player
Birthday: 2/3/1950: Karen Carpenter, Singing member of the 'Carpenters'
Birthday: 2/3/1958: Ian Woosnam, Welsh born golfer
Birthday: 3/3/1831: George Pullman, US designer of railway carriages
Birthday: 3/3/1847: Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone
Birthday: 3/3/1911: Jean Harlow, American film star
Birthday: 3/3/1918: Peter O'Sullevan, Horse racing commentator
Birthday: 3/3/1920: Richard Searle, Cartoonist
Birthday: 3/3/1958: Miranda Richardson, English actress
Birthday: 3/3/1961: Fatima Whitbread, English javlin thrower
Birthday: 3/3/1972: Darren Anderton, Footballer
Birthday: 4/3/1678: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer; 'Four Seasons'
Birthday: 4/3/1924: Marlon Brando, American Oscar winning film actor
Birthday: 4/3/1928: Patrick Moore, Astronomer & television presenter
Birthday: 4/3/1929: Bernard Haitink, Dutch composer
Birthday: 4/3/1951: Kenny Dalgleish, Scottish born footballer & manager
Birthday: 5/3/1133: King Henry II of England
Birthday: 5/3/1908: Rex Harrison, English born film actor; 'My Fair Lady'
Birthday: 5/3/1935: Judd Hirsch, American television actor; TV's 'Taxi'
Birthday: 5/3/1939: Samantha Eggar, American film actress
Birthday: 5/3/1952: Elaine Page, English singer/actress
Birthday: 5/3/1958: Andy Gibb, Singer with 'Bee Gees'
Birthday: 6/3/1475: Michelangelo, Italian artist & sculptor
Birthday: 6/3/1619: Cyrano de Bergerac, French novelist
Birthday: 6/3/1806: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
Birthday: 6/3/1922: Frankie Howerd, English comedian
Birthday: 6/3/1936: John Noakes, Former 'Blue Peter' presenter
Birthday: 6/3/1937: Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet astronaut
Birthday: 6/3/1944: Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
Birthday: 6/3/1944: David Glimour, Of the group 'Pink Floyd'
Birthday: 6/3/1945: Rob Reiner, American film director
Birthday: 7/3/1875: Maurice Ravel, French composer of 'Bolero'
Birthday: 7/3/1930: Lord Snowdon, Photographer
Birthday: 7/3/1940: Daniel J. Travanti, US TV & film actor; TV's 'Hill St. Blues'
Birthday: 7/3/1952: Viv Richards, Cricket player
Birthday: 7/3/1952: William Boyd, Author
Birthday: 7/3/1958: Rik Mayall, English comedian; TV's 'Young Ones'
Birthday: 7/3/1960: Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
Birthday: 8/3/1859: Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows'
Birthday: 8/3/1930: Douglas Hurd, Conservative cabinet minister
Birthday: 8/3/1943: Michael Grade, Television executive
Birthday: 8/3/1943: Lynn Redgrave, Actress daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave
Birthday: 8/3/1945: Mickey Dolenz, 'The Monkeys' drummer
Birthday: 8/3/1951: Phil Edmonds, England cricketer
Birthday: 8/3/1954: David Wilkie,Olympic Swimmer and gold medalist
Birthday: 8/3/1958: Gary Numan, Pop singer
Birthday: 9/3/1763: William Cobbett, English writer of 'Rural Rides'
Birthday: 9/3/1892: Victoria Sackville-West, English novelist and poet
Birthday: 9/3/1918: Mickey Spillane, American novelist
Birthday: 9/3/1934: Yuri Gagarin, First man in space
Birthday: 9/3/1943: Bobby Fischer, Former world chess champion
Birthday: 9/3/1945: Procul Harum, (Real name Robin Trower), Pop Singer
Birthday: 9/3/1945: Micky Dolenz, Singer with the 'Monkees'
Birthday: 9/3/1952: Bill Beaumont, Sports broadcaster and former rugby player
Birthday: 10/3/1787: William Etty, Artist of Historical and Classical subjects
Birthday: 10/3/1932: Baroness Marcia Falkender, Political columnist
Birthday: 10/3/1934: Fou Ts Ong, Chinese pianist
Birthday: 10/3/1947: Paul Condon, Metropolitan Police commissioner
Birthday: 10/3/1957: Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player
Birthday: 10/3/1964: HRH Prince Edward, Son of the Queen
Birthday: 10/3/1967: Susie Q, Of the group 'Cookie Crew'
Birthday: 11/3/1819: Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery
Birthday: 11/3/1885: Sir Malcolm Campbell, Racing driver who held the land speed record
Birthday: 11/3/1898: Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star
Birthday: 11/3/1916: Lord (Harold) Wilson, Former Labour Prime Minister
Birthday: 11/3/1923: Louise Brough, American tennis champion
Birthday: 11/3/1932: Nigel Lawson, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Birthday: 11/3/1961: Bruce Watson, Of the Pop group 'Big Country'
Event: 1/3/1780: Pennsylvania became the first American state to abolish slavery
Event: 1/3/1932: The baby son of Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator, was kidnapped
Event: 1/3/1940: Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her part in 'Gone With The Wind'
Event: 1/3/1954: The first American hydrogen bomb test took place on the island of Bikini
Event: 1/3/1966: The first ever (crash) landing on Venus took place; by the soviet probe Venus 3
Event: 1/3/1978: The coffin of Charles Chaplin was stolen, only months after being buried
Event: 1/3/1979: A devolution vote in Scotland failed to reach the 40% requirement
Event: 1/3/1983: British Leyland launced a new car, the Maestro
Event: 2/3/1882: An assassination attempt was made on the life of Queen Victoria
Event: 2/3/1958: The Antartic was crossed for the first time by Dr Vivian Fuchs
Event: 2/3/1969: The supersonic aircraft Concorde made its first test flight in France
Event: 2/3/1970: Rhodesia became an independent republic from Britain
Event: 2/3/1972: The American Pioneer 10, bound for the planet Jupiter, was launched
Event: 2/3/1986: The Queen signed a proclamation giving Australia legal independence
Event: 2/3/1988: The Liberals and Social Democrats merged to form the Liberal Democrats
Event: 3/3/1931: The US adopted the 'Star Spangled Banner' as their national anthem
Event: 3/3/1969: The American Apollo 9 spacecraft was launched
Event: 3/3/1978: A date for majority rule in Rhodesia was announced, 31st December 1978
Event: 3/3/1982: The Queen opened the Barbican Arts Centre in London
Event: 3/3/1985: British miners called off their strike without reaching any agreement
Event: 3/3/1987: Danny Kaye, the American comedian, actor and film star, died
Event: 3/3/1987: Prescription charges in Britain rose by 20p to 2.40 per item
Event: 3/3/1995: British police were to be issued stab proof vests in 'dangerous' operations
Event: 4/3/1789: The first Congress of the United States was held in New York
Event: 4/3/1824: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed
Event: 4/3/1861: Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States
Event: 4/3/1882: Britain's first electric trams ran in East London
Event: 4/3/1890: The Forth railway bridge was officially opened
Event: 4/3/1959: Pioneer 4 became the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon
Event: 4/3/1967: The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore in Britain
Event: 4/3/1974: A Labour government took over when Edward Heath resigned
Event: 4/3/1980: Robert Mugabe formed Zimbabwe's first black government
Event: 4/3/1986: The first issue of the 'Today' newspaper was published
Event: 5/3/1790: Flora Macdonald, the Scottish heroine, died
Event: 5/3/1850: The Menai railway bridge, linking Anglesey with the rest of Wales, was opened
Event: 5/3/1918: Moscow became the new capital city of Russia
Event: 5/3/1936: The British Spitfire fighter plane made its first test flight
Event: 5/3/1946: Winston Churchill first used the term 'Iron Curtain' in a speech
Event: 5/3/1953: Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, died
Event: 5/3/1956: Telephone weather forecasts began in Britain for the first time
Event: 5/3/1963: Britain had its first frost free night since December 22 of previous year
Event: 5/3/1969: The Kray twins were found guilty of murder and given life sentences
Event: 5/3/1976: The Ulster Convention was dissolved & direct rule from Westminster continued
Event: 6/3/1836: The seige at the Alamo, Texas, ended after 12 days with only a handul of survivors
Event: 6/3/1899: The drug 'aspirin' was patented by Felix Hoffman
Event: 6/3/1930: The first ever frozen foods went on sale in the United States
Event: 6/3/1957: Israel completed its withdrawl from Sinai, Middle East
Event: 6/3/1961: George Formby, the English entertainer, died
Event: 6/3/1984: The National Coal Board announced a plan of massive job cuts & pit closures
Event: 6/3/1987: The ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' capsized outside Zeebrugge harbour
Event: 7/3/1876: The telephone was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States
Event: 7/3/1912: A Frenchman made the first non-stop flight from Paris to London
Event: 7/3/1957: Percy Wyndham Lewis, the English writer and artist, died
Event: 7/3/1962: A Royal College of Physician's report highlighted the dangers of smoking
Event: 7/3/1965: American marines landed in South Vietnam
Event: 7/3/1969: The Victoria line on the London underground was opened
Event: 7/3/1989: Chinese occupying forces fired on Tibetan monks and civilians
Event: 8/3/1702: King William III was killed during a riding accident
Event: 8/3/1790: The French Assembly voted to continue slavery in French colonies
Event: 8/3/1910: The first pilots licence was issued in Britain
Event: 8/3/1952: The world's first artificial heart was used
Event: 8/3/1966: The Nelson column, in Dublin, was destroyed by an IRA bomb
Event: 8/3/1971: Harold Lloyd, the comedy star of the silent screen, died
Event: 8/3/1971: The Daily Sketch newspaper closed after 62 years of publication
Event: 8/3/1983: A 1,000 pound note, issued in 1935, was sold at Christies for 6,800 pounds
Event: 8/3/1983: A new generation of Hovercraft was launched on the Isle of Wight by Sir Christopher Cockerell
Event: 9/3/1796: French leader Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine
Event: 9/3/1831: King Louis Philippe founded the French Foreign Legion
Event: 9/3/1862: The first battle between iron clad warships took place, during the American Civil War
Event: 9/3/1876: Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the first telephone
Event: 9/3/1932: Eamon de Valera was elected President of the republic of Ireland
Event: 9/3/1946: 33 people died & four hundred were injured when barriers collapsed at an FA cup game at Bolton, Lancashire
Event: 9/3/1987: Bobby Locke, the well known South African golfer, died
Event: 9/3/1994: The IRA fired motar bombs at Heathrow airport, but they failed to explode
Event: 10/3/1801: The first census in Britain took place
Event: 10/3/1863: King Edward VII married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
Event: 10/3/1886: The first Crufts dog show to be held in London took place, having first taken place in Newcastle in 1859
Event: 10/3/1906: London Underground's Bakerloo line was opened
Event: 10/3/1910: The first film made in Hollywood was released; called 'Old California'
Event: 10/3/1969: James Earl Ray was found guilty of the murder of Martin Luther King and sentenced to 99 years in jail
Event: 10/3/1977: It was discovered that the planet Uranus had rings
Event: 10/3/1986: The American movie star Ray Milland died
Event: 10/3/1988: Prince Charles narrowly missed being killed in an avalanche during a skiing trip
Event: 11/3/1682: The Royal Chelsea Hospital (and site of the flower show) was founded
Event: 11/3/1702: The 'Daily Courant', the first successful English newspaper, was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet
Event: 11/3/1955: Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, died
Event: 11/3/1957: Richard Byrd, the American Polar explorer, died
Event: 11/3/1983: Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, was buried in Moscow
Event: 11/3/1988: Alison Johns, a 17 year old golfer from Lincolnshire, became the youngest person to win the Roehampton Gold Cup
Event: 11/3/1990: The Republic of Lithuania declared its independence from the USSR
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