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On this day 15th March |
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Born on this Day
1275 Margaret of England 1916 Harry James 1924 Sabu 1932 Judd Hirsch 1941 Mike Love 1944 Sly Stone 1946 Lynda La Plante 1949 John Duttine 1962 Terence Trent D'Arby 1971 Penny Lancaster 1985 Tom Chilton 1985 Curtis Davies Died on this Day 44BC Julius Caesar 1975 Aristotle Onassis 2003 Dame Thora Hird Music 1975 T Rex were disbanded by Marc Bolan. 1975 The Goodies entered the UK charts with their infectious hit 'Funky Gibbon'. 1980 The Clash's semi-documentary film 'Rude Boy' premiered in London. 1984 The remaining Beatles were made freemen of the city of Liverpool. Sport 1877 Australia played England at Melbourne in the first test match, with Australia eventually winning by 45 runs 1992 New Zealand beat England by 7 wickets in the Cricket World Cup, bringing to an end England's unbeaten run of 12 day internationals. People & Showbiz 1964 In Montreal, Richard Burton married Elizabeth Taylor 1995 Former Cabinet minister David Mellor was considering a £200,000 offer to become a presenter on Talk Radio UK. General Events 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first New World voyage 1909 American tycoon GS Selfridge opened the first department store in London's Oxford Street. 1937 America's first blood bank was set up in Chicago. 1938 Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia 1984 Jean Jones from Merry Hill, Wolverhampton became the first British patient to receive a combined heart and lung transplant. 1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). 1988 Nigel Lawson introduced a radical budget, with the basic rate of tax cut to 25 pence in the pound and the top rate slashed from 60 to 40 per cent. 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. |
