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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 |
Anniversaries on: March 23, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1887 | Juan Gris, Spanish painter | | 1920 | Jimmy Edwards, Actor and comedian | | 1921 | Donald Campbell, Land and water speed record breaker | | 1929 | Roger Bannister, First athlete to break 'Four Minute' mile barrier | | 1935 | Barry Cryer, Scriptwriter and comedian | | 1966 | Marti Pellow, Of the Pop group 'Wet Wet Wet' | | 1990 | Princess Eugenie, Daughter of Prince Andrew & Duchess of York |
Events:| 1752 | Canadas first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, began publication | | 1861 | London's first trams starting operating in Bayswater | | 1891 | Goal nets were used for the first time in an FA cup final | | 1919 | In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist Party | | 1925 | The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution was banned in Tennessee schools | | 1965 | The American manned Gemini spacecraft made three Earth orbits | | 1971 | Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, proclaimed its independence | | 1985 | Ben Hardwicke, Britains youngest liver transplant patient, died aged 3 | | 1991 | Prime Minister John Major announced plans for his 'Citizens Charter' |
Anniversaries on: March 24, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1887 | Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor | | 1917 | Sir John Kendrew, Nobel Prize winning chemist | | 1930 | Steve McQueen, American film actor | | 1945 | Patrick Malahide, Actor, TV roles include 'Minder' &'Middlemarch' | | 1947 | Alan Sugar, Business Tycoon (Amstrad) | | 1947 | Archie Gemmill, Former Scottish footballer | | 1951 | Peter Powell, Former Radio One DJ |
Events:| 1603 | Queen Elizabeth I died after reigning for almost 45 years | | 1882 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet author of 'Hiawatha', died | | 1887 | History was made, when there was a dead heat in the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race | | 1926 | The first Safeway's Supermarket was opened in Maryland, USA | | 1942 | The national loaf was introduced in Britain | | 1958 | Elvis Presley signed up for the United States army | | 1983 | Barney Clark, the first human to be given a permanent artificial heart, died after 112 days | | 1986 | At least 8 people died, when hurricane force winds swept across the UK | | 1994 | The new Jewel House, at the Tower of London, was opened by the Queen |
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