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Anniversaries on: March 8, 2009
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, 2009
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 |
Anniversaries on: March 10, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1787 | William Etty, Artist of Historical and Classical subjects | | 1932 | Baroness Marcia Falkender, Political columnist | | 1934 | Fou Ts Ong, Chinese pianist | | 1947 | Paul Condon, Metropolitan Police commissioner | | 1957 | Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player | | 1964 | HRH Prince Edward, Son of the Queen | | 1967 | Susie Q, Of the group 'Cookie Crew' |
Events:| 1801 | The first census in Britain took place | | 1863 | King Edward VII married Princess Alexandra of Denmark | | 1886 | The first Crufts dog show to be held in London took place, having first taken place in Newcastle in 1859 | | 1906 | London Underground's Bakerloo line was opened | | 1910 | The first film made in Hollywood was released; called 'Old California' | | 1969 | James Earl Ray was found guilty of the murder of Martin Luther King and sentenced to 99 years in jail | | 1977 | It was discovered that the planet Uranus had rings | | 1986 | The American movie star Ray Milland died | | 1988 | Prince Charles narrowly missed being killed in an avalanche during a skiing trip |
Anniversaries on: March 11, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1819 | Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery | | 1885 | Sir Malcolm Campbell, Racing driver who held the land speed record | | 1898 | Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star | | 1916 | Lord (Harold) Wilson, Former Labour Prime Minister | | 1923 | Louise Brough, American tennis champion | | 1932 | Nigel Lawson, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer | | 1961 | Bruce Watson, Of the Pop group 'Big Country' |
Events:| 1682 | The Royal Chelsea Hospital (and site of the flower show) was founded | | 1702 | The 'Daily Courant', the first successful English newspaper, was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet | | 1955 | Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, died | | 1957 | Richard Byrd, the American Polar explorer, died | | 1983 | Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, was buried in Moscow | | 1988 | Alison Johns, a 17 year old golfer from Lincolnshire, became the youngest person to win the Roehampton Gold Cup | | 1990 | The Republic of Lithuania declared its independence from the USSR |
Anniversaries on: March 12, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1710 | Thomas Arne, Composer of operas and 'Rule Brittania' | | 1908 | Max Wall, English comedian and actor | | 1925 | Gordon McRae, American film actor; 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' | | 1942 | Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group | | 1946 | Liza Minnelli, Singer, and actress daughter of Judy Garland | | 1948 | Virginia Bottomley, Conservative politician | | 1950 | Willie Duggan, Irish rugby international |
Events:| 1917 | Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, was founded | | 1935 | A speed limit of 30mph was introduced in British towns and built up areas | | 1941 | Hebrides islanders hid from government officials, thousands of bottles of Whiskey from a shipwreck | | 1955 | American jazzman Charlie 'Bird' Parker died, aged 35 | | 1968 | Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, was granted independence after 158 years of British rule | | 1969 | Paul McCartney married the photographer Linda Eastman | | 1988 | The use of Bank of England pound notes ended, having been replaced by pound coins | | 1992 | A statue of Stan Laurel was erected near his former home in Dockway Square, North Shields | | 1994 | The first women Anglican priests were ordained in Britain |
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