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Anniversaries on: March 12, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1710 | Thomas Arne, Composer of operas and 'Rule Brittania' | | 1908 | Max Wall, English comedian and actor | | 1925 | Gordon McRae, American film actor; 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' | | 1942 | Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group | | 1946 | Liza Minnelli, Singer, and actress daughter of Judy Garland | | 1948 | Virginia Bottomley, Conservative politician | | 1950 | Willie Duggan, Irish rugby international |
Events:| 1917 | Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, was founded | | 1935 | A speed limit of 30mph was introduced in British towns and built up areas | | 1941 | Hebrides islanders hid from government officials, thousands of bottles of Whiskey from a shipwreck | | 1955 | American jazzman Charlie 'Bird' Parker died, aged 35 | | 1968 | Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, was granted independence after 158 years of British rule | | 1969 | Paul McCartney married the photographer Linda Eastman | | 1988 | The use of Bank of England pound notes ended, having been replaced by pound coins | | 1992 | A statue of Stan Laurel was erected near his former home in Dockway Square, North Shields | | 1994 | The first women Anglican priests were ordained in Britain |
Anniversaries on: March 13, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1855 | Percival Lowell, American astronomer | | 1860 | Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer | | 1884 | Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist | | 1939 | Neil Sedaka, Popular singer/songwriter | | 1939 | Terence Brady, Playwright and novelist | | 1950 | Joe Bugner, Former British heavy weight boxing champion | | 1960 | Adam Clayton, Of the Pop group 'U2' |
Events:| 1873 | The Scottish Football Association was formed | | 1901 | American President Benjamin Harrison died | | 1927 | The British army ceased using the lance as an official weapon | | 1930 | Clyde Tombaugh announced the discovery of the planet Pluto | | 1938 | Nazi Germany invaded Austria, making it a German Reich province | | 1961 | Black and white Bank of England five pound notes ceased to be legal tender | | 1967 | Former West Indian cricketer Sir Frank Worrell died | | 1992 | At least a thousand people were killed in eastern Turkey by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale |
Anniversaries on: March 14, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1804 | Johann Strauss Snr, Austrian composer | | 1836 | Isabella Beeton, Writer on cookery (Mrs Beetons Cookery Book) | | 1879 | Albert Einstein, Scientific Genius, (Theory of Relativity) | | 1915 | Bill Owen, Stage & TV actor ('Compo' in 'Last of the Summer Wine') | | 1933 | Michael Caine, Actor of stage and films | | 1945 | Jasper Carott, English comedian | | 1947 | Pam Ayres, English poet | | 1956 | Tessa Sanderson, English Javelin champion |
Events:| 1883 | Karl Marx, the German 'father of Communism', died | | 1932 | George Eastman, the American photographic pioneer, died | | 1936 | An airline service to Hong Kong was started | | 1961 | A revised version of the New Testament was published | | 1964 | Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death | | 1975 | Susan Hayward, the Oscar winning actress, died | | 1990 | The House of Commons was adjourned due to grave disorder, being the first time this had happened in 30 years | | 1992 | Jimmy White won the European snooker championship |
Anniversaries on: March 15, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1767 | Andrew Jackson, Twice President of the United States | | 1916 | Harry James, Well known American band leader and trumpeter | | 1940 | Frank Dobson, Labour politician | | 1941 | Mike Love, Member of the 'Beach Boys' group | | 1948 | John Duttine, Stage, television and film actor | | 1954 | Isobel Buchanan, Soprano singer | | 1962 | Terence Trent D'Arby, American Pop singer |
Events:| 1887 | The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia | | 1909 | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London | | 1919 | The American Legion was founded | | 1937 | The United States set up its first central blood bank | | 1945 | Record album charts were first published in the United States | | 1964 | Richard Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor in Montreal | | 1975 | Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate & second husband of Jaqueline Kennedy, died | | 1983 | Rebbecca West, the British novelist, died | | 1983 | A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts |
Anniversaries on: March 16, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1751 | James Madison, Former (4th) American President | | 1868 | Maksim Gorky, Russian author | | 1920 | Leo McKern, Australian actor of stage and screen | | 1926 | Jerry Lewis, American comedian & partner of Dean Martin | | 1951 | Kate Nelligan, Actress | | 1954 | Nancy Wilson, Pop singer with the group 'Heart' | | 1954 | Jimmy Nail, Singer and actor |
Events:| 1802 | West Point, the first United States Military Academy, was established | | 1900 | The ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete was discovered | | 1926 | Robert Goddard launched the first petrol & liquid oxygen powered rocket | | 1935 | In Germany Hitler introduced conscription, renouncing the Treaty of Versailles | | 1970 | A new revised edition of the Old Testament was published | | 1973 | The Queen opened the new London Bridge, the previous one having been sold for 1 million pounds and rebuilt in the US | | 1976 | Labour leader Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister | | 1983 | A second letter bomb in 24hrs, addressed to the Prime Minister, was defused | | 1994 | The High Court gave childminders the right to smack children in their care |
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