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Anniversaries on: March 16, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
Anniversaries on: March 18, 2009
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, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
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