| 1983 - | Rebbecca West, the British novelist, died |
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| 1983 - | A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts |
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| 1975 - | Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate & second husband of Jaqueline Kennedy, died |
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| 1964 - | Richard Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor in Montreal |
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| 1945 - | Record album charts were first published in the United States |
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| 1937 - | The United States set up its first central blood bank |
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| 1919 - | The American Legion was founded |
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| 1912 - | Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins |
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| 1909 - | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London |
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| 1908 - | 1st performance of Maurice Ravels Rapsodie Espagnole |
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| 1907 - | Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote |
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| 1906 - | Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd |
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| 1903 - | Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa |
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| 1901 - | Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th |
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| 1898 - | Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist who invented the Bessemer converter, died |
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| 1892 - | US inventor Jesse Reno patented the first escalator |
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| 1887 - | The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia |
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| 1854 - | Emil von Behring, German bacteriologist, was born |
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| 1813 - | John Snow, English physician who pioneered the use of ether as an anesthetic, was born |
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