On this day

1848 Wyatt Earp was born.

1959 Terry Hall was born (Specials, Fun Boy 3, Colourfield)

1976 - Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage

1984 - A Mobile oil tanker spilled 200,000 gallons into the Columbia River.

1413 - Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry IV.

1760 - The great fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris after his escape from Elba and began his "Hundred Days" rule.

1616 - Walter Raleigh was released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

1957 Spike Lee was born

1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

2003 U.S. and British forces invade Iraq from Kuwait.

March 21st events.


1413 – Henry V becomes King of England


1857 – An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.


1905 – Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity


1965 – Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

1960 - Approx 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired upon demonstrators.

1974 - An attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall.

1980 - J.R. Ewing (Dallas) was shot.

1994 - Steven Spielberg won his first Oscars.( Best picture and Best director for "Schindler's List."

1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

1733 - Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer).

1888 - The English Football League was established.

1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.

1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.

March 22nd.

238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.


1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.


1933 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.


1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.

A few Birthdays

1931 William Shatner

1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber

1976 Reese Witherspoon

March 23rd birthdays.


Marti Pellow-45
Damon Albarn-42
Gail Porter-39

1919-Mussolini founds Italian Fascist movement.

1983-US Star Wars plan to combat nuclear war in space is launched.