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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 |
Anniversaries on: March 17, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1846 | Kate Greenaway, English illustrator | | 1919 | Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist | | 1933 | Penelope Lively, Novelist | | 1938 | Rudolf Nureyev, World renowned Russian ballet dancer | | 1939 | Robin Knox-Johnson, The first solo round the world yachtsman | | 1941 | Clarence Clemons, Of the group 'E Street Band' | | 1949 | Patrick Duffy, American television actor; 'Dallas' | | 1954 | Lesley-Ann Down, English television & film actress |
Events:| 1337 | Edward the Black Prince became the first ever 'Duke', when he was made Duke of Cornwall | | 1649 | Cromwell abolished the monarchy and declared England a Commonwealth | | 1899 | The first ever radio distress signal was sent, from a ship off the Kent coast | | 1945 | American forces defeated the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima | | 1958 | The shape of the Earth was measured for the first time by satellite | | 1978 | The oil-tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on the Brittany coast, & around 220,000 tons of oil was discharged into the sea | | 1983 | The third letter bomb addressed to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in three days, was defused | | 1983 | A copy of Lord Nelsons orders to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar was sold for 6,000 pounds | | 1988 | The chess Euwe memorial tournament in Amsterdam was won by Nigel Short after a draw with Anatoly Karpov |
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