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Anniversaries on: March 26, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
Anniversaries on: March 28, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1483 | Raphael,Italian painter, and architect. Rebuilt St Peters | | 1660 | King George I, Became King of Great Britain in 1714 | | 1902 | Flora Robson, English actress | | 1921 | Sir Dirk Bogarde, Stage and screen actor | | 1935 | Michael Parkinson, Broadcaster and TV presenter | | 1942 | Neil Kinnock, Former Labour Party leader | | 1948 | Matthew Corbett, TV Entertainer; the 'Sooty show' |
Events:| 1910 | Near Marseilles, France, the first ever seaplane took off | | 1912 | During the annual 'Boat Race', both Oxford and Cambridge boats sank | | 1917 | The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was formed | | 1945 | The last V2 German rocket of World War II fell on London | | 1964 | Radio Caroline, Britains first 'pirate' radio station, began broadcasting from a ship at sea | | 1969 | Dwight D Eisenhower, former President Of the US and wartime General, died | | 1977 | The film 'Rocky', starring Sylvestor Stallone, won an Oscar for best film | | 1979 | A serious radiation leak occured at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US |
Anniversaries on: March 29, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1790 | John Tyler, Former American President | | 1902 | Sir William Walton, English composer | | 1931 | Lord (Norman) Tebbit, Tory politician and TV presenter | | 1943 | John Major, Conservative Prime Minister | | 1943 | Julie Goodyear, Cornation Streets 'Bet Lynch' | | 1944 | Vangelis, Greek musician | | 1944 | John Suchet, Television journalist | | 1949 | Michael Brecker, Of the group 'The Brecker Brothers' |
Events:| 1871 | Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London | | 1940 | Bank of England Pound notes were issued containing metal strips as an anti forgery device | | 1974 | The American spacecraft Mariner 10 took close-up photographs of Mercury | | 1981 | The first ever London marathon was held; won by an American, Dick Beardsley | | 1982 | The film 'Chariots of Fire' won an 'Oscar' for best film | | 1988 | Plans were announced, for the construction of Europe's tallest 'skyscraper', on Canary Wharf, London | | 1992 | Earl Spencer, the father of the Princess of Wales, died |
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