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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'
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: Terence Brady, Playwright and novelist
Birthday: 13/3/1939: Neil Sedaka, Popular singer/songwriter
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: Nancy Wilson, Pop singer with the group 'Heart'
Birthday: 16/3/1954: Jimmy Nail, Singer and actor
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
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
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
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