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Anniversaries on: March 2, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1793 | Sam Houston, Texan leader | | 1923 | Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westmister | | 1931 | Mikhail Gorrbachev, Former soviet leader | | 1949 | J.P.R Williams, Welsh rugby player | | 1949 | Naomi James, Yachtswoman and author | | 1950 | Karen Carpenter, Singing member of the 'Carpenters' | | 1958 | Ian Woosnam, Welsh born golfer |
Events:| 1882 | An assassination attempt was made on the life of Queen Victoria | | 1958 | The Antartic was crossed for the first time by Dr Vivian Fuchs | | 1969 | The supersonic aircraft Concorde made its first test flight in France | | 1970 | Rhodesia became an independent republic from Britain | | 1972 | The American Pioneer 10, bound for the planet Jupiter, was launched | | 1986 | The Queen signed a proclamation giving Australia legal independence | | 1988 | The Liberals and Social Democrats merged to form the Liberal Democrats |
Anniversaries on: March 3, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1831 | George Pullman, US designer of railway carriages | | 1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone | | 1911 | Jean Harlow, American film star | | 1918 | Peter O'Sullevan, Horse racing commentator | | 1920 | Richard Searle, Cartoonist | | 1958 | Miranda Richardson, English actress | | 1961 | Fatima Whitbread, English javlin thrower | | 1972 | Darren Anderton, Footballer |
Events:| 1931 | The US adopted the 'Star Spangled Banner' as their national anthem | | 1969 | The American Apollo 9 spacecraft was launched | | 1978 | A date for majority rule in Rhodesia was announced, 31st December 1978 | | 1982 | The Queen opened the Barbican Arts Centre in London | | 1985 | British miners called off their strike without reaching any agreement | | 1987 | Danny Kaye, the American comedian, actor and film star, died | | 1987 | Prescription charges in Britain rose by 20p to 2.40 per item | | 1995 | British police were to be issued stab proof vests in 'dangerous' operations |
Anniversaries on: March 4, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1678 | Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer; 'Four Seasons' | | 1924 | Marlon Brando, American Oscar winning film actor | | 1928 | Patrick Moore, Astronomer & television presenter | | 1929 | Bernard Haitink, Dutch composer | | 1951 | Kenny Dalgleish, Scottish born footballer & manager |
Events:| 1789 | The first Congress of the United States was held in New York | | 1824 | The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed | | 1861 | Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States | | 1882 | Britain's first electric trams ran in East London | | 1890 | The Forth railway bridge was officially opened | | 1959 | Pioneer 4 became the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon | | 1967 | The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore in Britain | | 1974 | A Labour government took over when Edward Heath resigned | | 1980 | Robert Mugabe formed Zimbabwe's first black government | | 1986 | The first issue of the 'Today' newspaper was published |
Anniversaries on: March 5, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
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