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On This Day in History ~ March ~ mars ~ marzo ~ március
Mar16
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1989 |
The Reverend Marcus Morris, founder of the Eagle comic, died |
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| 1872 | The first English FA cup final took place | ||
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Mar17 |
1978 | The oil-tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground of the coast of Brittany |
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| 1649 | Oliver Cromwell declared England a Commonwealth | ||
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Mar18 |
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Mar19 |
1928 |
The actor Patrick McGoohan was born |
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1834 |
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were convicted and sentenced to transportation |
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1616
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Sir Walter Raleigh was released from the Tower of London where he had been held prisoner for 13 years | ||
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Mar20 |
1987 |
Towser - a tortoiseshell cat employed by the Glenturret Distillery - died having killed an estimated 28,899 mice in her lifetime |
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Mar21 |
1991 | Clarence Leo Fender, inventor of the solid-bodied electric guitar, died |
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| 1963 | Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closed |
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| 1952 | Vivien Leigh won a second Oscar, for best actress in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' |
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Mar22 |
1982 | Lieutenant Colonel Jean Blackwood became the first woman to command a British Army unit. |
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| 1942 |
The BBC broadcast its first daily morse code news to the French Resistance |
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Mar23 |
2000 |
After two years NaTCH Engineering's mail re-direction from Wickham Market to Framlingham ended |
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| 1928 | Children's Saturday matinees began at the Empire cinema, Willesden - it cost 3d (just over 1p) to get in | ||
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