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Postby chenrezig » 17 Mar 2016, 07:22

17th March is St Patrick's Day. St. Patrick was born Circa AD 387 and is the Patron Saint of Ireland.

1337 Edward, the Black Prince was made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England; a duchy being a territory or domain ruled by a duke or duchess.

1473 The birth of King James IV of Scotland. He is generally regarded as the most successful of the Stewart monarchs of Scotland, but his reign ended with the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field.

1649 Oliver Cromwell abolished the position of King of England and the House of Lords and declared England a Commonwealth

1873 The birth of Margaret Grace Bondfield, Labour politician who became chairman of the TUC in 1923 and Minister of Labour in 1929. She was the first woman Cabinet minister in the United Kingdom and one of the first three female Labour MPs.

1891 SS Utopia collided with HMS Anson (a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy) in the Bay of Gibraltar and sank in less than 20 minutes, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

1899 The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistance to a merchant ship aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent.

1912 The death of Lawrence Oates, a member of Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition who was suffering serious frostbite and hampering the progress of his companions. He had left his tent the previous night saying ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ ‘A very gallant gentleman,’ Scott recorded. His body was never found. Date of birth 17th March 1880 - Died 17th March 1912.

1939 The birth of Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single handed, non stop around the world.

1951 The comic strip character Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time.

1957 British European Airways withdrew their Viscount 701s from service after one of them crashed at Manchester Airport 4 days previously, killing 21 people.

1968 More than 200 people were arrested after demonstrators clashed in an anti Vietnam war protest outside the US embassy in London.

1978 The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on the coast of Brittany. Over 220,000 tons of crude oil seeped out of the crippled ship, causing serious pollution in Britain and France..

1984 The 130th Boat Race was postponed (for 24 hours) an hour before the start, after the Cambridge boat was in collision with a barge and sank.

1993 The death of Charlotte Hughes, aged 115 at St David's Nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland. At the time of her death she was not only the oldest person in Britain, but the second oldest person in the world.

1995 Gangster Ronnie Kray died in Broadmoor hospital. He was serving a life sentence for heinous crimes after being arrested by Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read.

1996 The Queen visited Dunblane - Scotland, following the massacre, on 13th March, of 16 children and their teacher at the local school.

2013 The last TV network news from Television Centre in west London was broadcast on BBC One. Mishal Husain presented the programme from studio N6 at 22:00 GMT, signing off nearly 45 years of bulletins after the Centre had been sold for redevelopment.

2015 The UK's first Bio-Bus, nicknamed 'the poo bus' was officially launched in Bristol as Service Number 2. Powered entirely on gas generated by human and food waste it went into regular service on 25th March.
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Postby annie » 17 Mar 2016, 09:11

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