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Anniversaries on: March 18, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1844 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer | | 1858 | Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine | | 1869 | Neville Chamberlain, Former prime minister | | 1905 | Robert Donat, English stage and film actor | | 1939 | Kenny Lynch, Singer and actor | | 1939 | Ron Atkinson, Football manager | | 1949 | Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, Irish snooker player | | 1952 | Pat Eddery, Champion jockey |
Events:| 1662 | The first ever public buses were started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city | | 1745 | Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, died | | 1850 | The American Express company was formed in Buffalo, New York | | 1931 | The first electric razors were made in the United States | | 1949 | NATO was set up by seven European countries including Britain | | 1965 | The Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space | | 1967 | The tanker Torrey Cannon ran aground near Lands End, spilling large amounts of crude oil | | 1988 | Broadcaster and gardening expert Percy Thrower died | | 1990 | East Germanies first elections in over sixty years ended |
Anniversaries on: March 19, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1813 | Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer & opponent of slave trade | | 1848 | Wyatt Earp, American Lawman | | 1928 | Patrick McGoohan, Actor; played 'The Prisoner' on television | | 1933 | Philip Roth, American novelist | | 1946 | Ursula Andress, Film actress | | 1955 | Bruce Willis, American television and film actor | | 1955 | Derek Longmuir, Of the Pop group, 'Bay City Rollers' | | 1964 | Courtney Pine, Modern jazz saxophonist |
Events:| 1930 | The former Conservative Prime Minister, Arthur James Balfour, died | | 1932 | The Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened | | 1950 | Edgar Rice Burroughs the US novelist, author of the 'Tarzan' books, died | | 1962 | A three hundred year old skull was found under the grounds of 10 Downing Street | | 1976 | The separation of Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret was announced | | 1982 | A landing by an Argentinian scrap metal dealer on South Georgia led to the Falklands conflict | | 1986 | Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announced their engagement |
Anniversaries on: March 20, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1828 | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet | | 1890 | Benjamino Gigli, World renowned Italian operatic tenor | | 1908 | Sir Michael Redgrave, Actor of stage and screen | | 1917 | Dame Vera Lynn, Singer and wartime 'Forces Sweetheart' | | 1937 | Jerry Reed, Country music guitarist | | 1950 | William Hurt, American film actor | | 1956 | Philip Oppenheim, Conservative politician | | 1961 | Slim Jim Phantom, Of the Pop group 'Stray Cats' |
Events:| 1602 | The Dutch East India Company was founded | | 1727 | Isaac Newton, discoverer of the 'Laws of Gravity', died and was buried in Westminster Abbey | | 1806 | The foundation stone of Dartmoor prison was laid | | 1956 | Tunisia gained independence from France | | 1969 | John Lennon, of the Beatles, married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar | | 1974 | An gunman tried (and failed) to kidnap Princess Anne from her car | | 1980 | The Pirate radio ship, Radio Caroline, sank | | 1990 | Namibia became an independent country after 105 years | | 1995 | The Queen began a visit to South Africa, the first royal visit since the end of apartheid |
Anniversaries on: March 21, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1685 | Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer | | 1869 | Florenz Ziegfield, American impresario | | 1935 | Brian Clough, Outspoken and renowned football manager | | 1936 | Roger Whitaker , Singer/songwriter | | 1943 | Vivian Stanshall, Of the 'Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band' | | 1946 | Timothy Dalton, English actor of stage and screen | | 1963 | Matthew Broderick, American actor |
Events:| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burnt at the stake in Oxford | | 1918 | An offensive began on the Somme, the last major offensive of World War I | | 1946 | Aneurin Bevan announced proposals for setting up a National Health Service | | 1952 | Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her part in the film 'A Streetcar Named Desire' | | 1958 | The London Planetarium opened | | 1963 | Alcatraz, maximum security prison on the island in San Francisco Bay, was closed after 29 years | | 1985 | Sir Michael Redgrave, the English actor, died | | 1990 | A London demonstration against the Poll Tax ended as a riot, with many arrests |
Anniversaries on: March 22, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1599 | Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish artist | | 1910 | Nicholas Monsarrat, English author | | 1923 | Marcel Marceau, French Mime artist | | 1930 | Stephen Sondheim, American songwriter | | 1931 | William Shatner, American actor (Captain Kirk of 'Star Trek') | | 1931 | Leslie Thomas, Writer of 'The Virgin Soldiers' | | 1948 | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of 'Phantom of the Opera' & 'Cats' | | 1949 | Jockey Wilson, Darts player |
Events:| 1888 | The English Football League was founded | | 1896 | The writer of 'Tom Browns Schooldays', Thomas Hughes, died | | 1907 | Taxi metres were used for the very first time in London cabs | | 1945 | The Arab League was formed by seven Middle East countries | | 1946 | The country of Jordan became independent from British rule | | 1958 | Mike Todd US film producer, and creator of the Todd AO movie projection system, died | | 1983 | Belfast born Chaim Herzog was elected president of the State of Israel | | 1994 | Two films by Steven Speilberg won a total of ten Oscars |
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