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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 |
Anniversaries on: March 25, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1867 | Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor | | 1908 | David Lean, British film director | | 1920 | Patrick Throughton, Film and TV actor; the second 'Dr Who' | | 1932 | Peter Walker, Conservative politician | | 1944 | Paul Michael Glaser, American actor; 'Starsky & Hutch' | | 1947 | Elton John, Pop singer/writer | | 1951 | Maisie Williams, Of the Pop group 'Boney M' | | 1952 | Robert Fox, Stage, screen and television actor | | 1960 | Steve Norman, of 'Spandau Ballet' |
Events:| 1306 | Robert the Bruce was crowned King of the Scots | | 1807 | The slave trade in England was abolished by the British Parliament | | 1843 | The Thames Tunnel for pedestrians was opened, linking Wapping and Rotherhithe | | 1879 | Leicestershire County Cricket Club was founded | | 1925 | Greece became a republic when King George was deposed | | 1949 | 'Hamlet' became the first British film to win an Oscar (actually won five in total) | | 1957 | The treaty of Rome was signed by six nations, to establish the European Economic Community | | 1980 | Robert Runcie became the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury |
Anniversaries on: March 26, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1859 | A.E Housman, English poet | | 1886 | Chico Marx, US Comedian of the famous 'Marx Brothers' | | 1911 | Tennessee Williams, American novelist and playwright | | 1925 | Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor | | 1931 | Leonard Nimoy, US actor known as Mr Spock of 'Star Trek' | | 1940 | James Caan, American film actor; 'Rollerball' & 'Misery' | | 1944 | Diana Ross, American singer | | 1963 | Susanne Sulley, Of the Pop group 'Human League' |
Events:| 1885 | The first cremation in Britain took place in Surrey, at the Woking Crematorium | | 1923 | A daily weather forecast was broadcast by the BBC for the first time | | 1934 | Driving tests were first introduced in Britain | | 1958 | Parking Tickets were first issued to motorists in London | | 1973 | The actor and playwright Sir Noel Coward died in Jamaica | | 1981 | The Social Democratic Party was launched by the 'Gang of Four' | | 1985 | Ben Kingsley won the best actor Academy Award, for his portrayal of Ghandi | | 1992 | Terry Waite announced his resignation as the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy |
Anniversaries on: March 27, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1845 | Wilhelm von Rontgen, German discoverer of X-Rays | | 1863 | Sir Henry Royce, The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame | | 1897 | Gloria Swanson, American stage and film actress | | 1912 | Lord James Callaghan, Labour politician & former Prime minister | | 1919 | Lord Amery, Conservative politician | | 1927 | Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor | | 1942 | Michael York, British born film actor | | 1950 | Tony Banks, Of the Pop group 'Genisis' |
Events:| 1625 | King James I of Great Britain died | | 1794 | The United States Navy was founded | | 1807 | The asteroid Vesta was discovered | | 1871 | In the first ever international rugby match, Scotland beat England at Edinburgh | | 1914 | The first successful blood transfusion was performed | | 1923 | The inventor of the vacuum flask, Sir James Dewar, died in London | | 1931 | Arnold Bennett, the English novelist, died of Typhoid | | 1948 | Nikita Krushchev became the new leader of the Soviet Union | | 1968 | The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was killed in a plane crash |
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