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Anniversaries on: March 5, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1133 | King Henry II of England | | 1908 | Rex Harrison, English born film actor; 'My Fair Lady' | | 1935 | Judd Hirsch, American television actor; TV's 'Taxi' | | 1939 | Samantha Eggar, American film actress | | 1952 | Elaine Page, English singer/actress | | 1958 | Andy Gibb, Singer with 'Bee Gees' |
Events:| 1790 | Flora Macdonald, the Scottish heroine, died | | 1850 | The Menai railway bridge, linking Anglesey with the rest of Wales, was opened | | 1918 | Moscow became the new capital city of Russia | | 1936 | The British Spitfire fighter plane made its first test flight | | 1946 | Winston Churchill first used the term 'Iron Curtain' in a speech | | 1953 | Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, died | | 1956 | Telephone weather forecasts began in Britain for the first time | | 1963 | Britain had its first frost free night since December 22 of previous year | | 1969 | The Kray twins were found guilty of murder and given life sentences | | 1976 | The Ulster Convention was dissolved & direct rule from Westminster continued |
Anniversaries on: March 6, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1475 | Michelangelo, Italian artist & sculptor | | 1619 | Cyrano de Bergerac, French novelist | | 1806 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet | | 1922 | Frankie Howerd, English comedian | | 1936 | John Noakes, Former 'Blue Peter' presenter | | 1937 | Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet astronaut | | 1944 | Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano | | 1944 | David Glimour, Of the group 'Pink Floyd' | | 1945 | Rob Reiner, American film director |
Events:| 1836 | The seige at the Alamo, Texas, ended after 12 days with only a handul of survivors | | 1899 | The drug 'aspirin' was patented by Felix Hoffman | | 1930 | The first ever frozen foods went on sale in the United States | | 1957 | Israel completed its withdrawl from Sinai, Middle East | | 1961 | George Formby, the English entertainer, died | | 1984 | The National Coal Board announced a plan of massive job cuts & pit closures | | 1987 | The ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' capsized outside Zeebrugge harbour |
Anniversaries on: March 7, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1875 | Maurice Ravel, French composer of 'Bolero' | | 1930 | Lord Snowdon, Photographer | | 1940 | Daniel J. Travanti, US TV & film actor; TV's 'Hill St. Blues' | | 1952 | Viv Richards, Cricket player | | 1952 | William Boyd, Author | | 1958 | Rik Mayall, English comedian; TV's 'Young Ones' | | 1960 | Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player |
Events:| 1876 | The telephone was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States | | 1912 | A Frenchman made the first non-stop flight from Paris to London | | 1957 | Percy Wyndham Lewis, the English writer and artist, died | | 1962 | A Royal College of Physician's report highlighted the dangers of smoking | | 1965 | American marines landed in South Vietnam | | 1969 | The Victoria line on the London underground was opened | | 1989 | Chinese occupying forces fired on Tibetan monks and civilians |
Anniversaries on: March 8, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1859 | Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows' | | 1930 | Douglas Hurd, Conservative cabinet minister | | 1943 | Michael Grade, Television executive | | 1943 | Lynn Redgrave, Actress daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave | | 1945 | Mickey Dolenz, 'The Monkeys' drummer | | 1951 | Phil Edmonds, England cricketer | | 1954 | David Wilkie,Olympic Swimmer and gold medalist | | 1958 | Gary Numan, Pop singer |
Events:| 1702 | King William III was killed during a riding accident | | 1790 | The French Assembly voted to continue slavery in French colonies | | 1910 | The first pilots licence was issued in Britain | | 1952 | The world's first artificial heart was used | | 1966 | The Nelson column, in Dublin, was destroyed by an IRA bomb | | 1971 | Harold Lloyd, the comedy star of the silent screen, died | | 1971 | The Daily Sketch newspaper closed after 62 years of publication | | 1983 | A 1,000 pound note, issued in 1935, was sold at Christies for 6,800 pounds | | 1983 | A new generation of Hovercraft was launched on the Isle of Wight by Sir Christopher Cockerell |
Anniversaries on: March 9, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1763 | William Cobbett, English writer of 'Rural Rides' | | 1892 | Victoria Sackville-West, English novelist and poet | | 1918 | Mickey Spillane, American novelist | | 1934 | Yuri Gagarin, First man in space | | 1943 | Bobby Fischer, Former world chess champion | | 1945 | Micky Dolenz, Singer with the 'Monkees' | | 1945 | Procul Harum, (Real name Robin Trower), Pop Singer | | 1952 | Bill Beaumont, Sports broadcaster and former rugby player |
Events:| 1796 | French leader Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine | | 1831 | King Louis Philippe founded the French Foreign Legion | | 1862 | The first battle between iron clad warships took place, during the American Civil War | | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the first telephone | | 1932 | Eamon de Valera was elected President of the republic of Ireland | | 1946 | 33 people died & four hundred were injured when barriers collapsed at an FA cup game at Bolton, Lancashire | | 1987 | Bobby Locke, the well known South African golfer, died | | 1994 | The IRA fired motar bombs at Heathrow airport, but they failed to explode |
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