1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000.
1682 The Chelsea Hospital a retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers who were unfit for further duty due to injury or old age was founded by Charles II.
1702 The Daily Courant the first successful English newspaper was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet but lasted until 1735 when it was merged with the Daily Gazetteer.
1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London.
1818 The publication of Mary's Shelley's book 'Frankenstein' frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. She was married for six years to the poet PB Shelley.
1819 The birth at White Coppice in Lancashire, of Sir Henry Tate, English sugar producer & founder of London's Tate Gallery.
1845 A Maori uprising against the British began in New Zealand. Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka.
1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners.
1858 The end of the Indian Mutiny that had lasted for 10 months. The Indian sepoys had mutinied after believing that their rifle cartridges had been lubricated in animal fat.
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England destroyed 800 houses and killed 270 people in Sheffield when the Low Bradfield Reservoir bursts its banks while it was being filled for the first time. The claims for damages formed one of the largest insurance claims of the Victorian period.
1885 The birth of Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of world land and water speed records.
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million. A group of Americans in California with a message for their fellow countrymen.
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
1945 The huge Krupps munitions factory in Germany was destroyed when 1,000 Allied bombers took part in the biggest ever daylight raid.
1955 The death aged 73 of Sir Alexander Fleming the British Nobel Prize winning bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across the bomb was without its nuclear capsule.
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed.
1967 Pink Floyd releases 1st single "Arnold Layne".
1971 Jim Morrison (The Doors) leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted.
1988 The Bank of England pound note first introduced on 12th March 1797, ceased to be legal tender in Britain at midnight. When the deadline for returning old notes was reached it was estimated that some 70 million were still outstanding.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
2013 Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his former wife Vicky Pryce were both jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice. The pair sentenced at Southwark Crown Court were convicted after she took driving licence points for him after he was caught speeding in 2003.
2014 Dozens of firefighters were called out to deal with a blaze .... at a fire station. The retained fire crew at Downham Market in Norfolk could do nothing because their own fire engine was caught up in the blaze that started in their own building.
2017 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins.
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.
On this date in 1977 most of the 25,000 copies of the A&M debut release of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN / NO FEELING were scrapped, (March 11th, 1977).
On 10th March 1977, the Sex Pistols signed to A&M Records,having been dropped by EMI,in a major publicity stunt outside Buckingham Palace,but sacked the band a few days later after Vicious threw up in the managing director's office (plus alleged sink-ripping, secretary-seducing and punch-ups, Rotten making threatening remarks at a London Club, band aggro on a flight, etc).
A&M execs were duly up in arms and dropped the Pistols. The majority of the 25,000 copies of ‘God Save The Queen’ were trashed (the few genuine ones that survive find themselves among the most highly collectible and valuable records in the world today).
On 18th May, the great opportunist Branson then took them on as a means of advancing Virgin's brand-image from hippie folk-rock and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. ‘God Save The Queen’ (with new b-side ‘Did you no wrong’) was rush released shortly after to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations.
The original B-side, ‘No Feeling’ (note the singular ‘feeling’) contained a different mix from the one that appeared on Never Mind the Bol locks (where it was given the pluralised titled of ‘No Feelings’).
1470 War of the Roses - The Battle of Losecoat Field (also known as the Battle of Empingham). The outcome was a victory for Yorkists Forces over Lancastrian Forces.
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony.
1664 New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II of England granted New Jersey to his brother James, Duke of York.
1689 The start of the Williamite War in Ireland; a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland. The War was to have a lasting effect on Ireland, confirming British and Protestant rule over the country for over a century. The iconic Williamite victories of the Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne are still celebrated by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland today.
1710 Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule Britannia was born. He also wrote a version of God Save the King which was to become the British national anthem.
1868 Henry O'Farrell from Dublin attempted to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria whilst he was on a tour of Australia. The attack caused great embarrassment in the colony and led to a wave of anti-Irish sentiment directed at all Irish people including Protestant Loyalists.
1881 Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his 300-mile march to the sea in protest against the British tax law securing a monopoly for salt. Joined by thousands of protesters Gandhi and his followers eventually reached the Arabian Sea where they made their own salt by evaporating sea water. The march which resulted in the arrest of Gandhi and 60,000 others earned new international respect and support for the leader and his movement.
1935 Britain imposed a 30 mph speed limit in built up areas.
1941 Islanders on the Hebrides hid thousands of bottles of shipwrecked whisky from government officials. The episode was celebrated in the film "Whisky Galore."
1944 Britain banned all travel to and from Ireland and Ulster in an effort to prevent German spies operating in neutral Eire from learning of the Allied invasion preparations taking place in Britain.
1950 The Llandow air disaster occurred near Sigingstone in Wales. 80 people died when their aircraft crashed making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano'.
1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman, US photographer.
1984 By the end of 12th March more than half of the country's 187,000 mineworkers were on strike over job cuts.
2013 The people of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory. Of 1,517 votes cast in the two-day referendum - on a turnout of more than 90% - 1,513 were in favour while just three votes were against.
1764 The birth in Falloden, Northumberland, of Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister. He is linked with Earl Grey tea after a blended tea was supplied to him as a gift and the sample was copied.
1770 The birth, in Leicester, of Daniel Lambert a jailer and animal breeder, famous for his unusually large size. By the time he was aged 35 he weighed 50 stone and was the heaviest authenticated person at the time. Lambert was athletically active,abstained from alcohol and did not eat unusual amounts of food. Poverty forced him to move to London and put himself on exhibition to raise money,he died suddenly aged 39. Picture of the Daniel Lambert chair and his portrait in Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester.
1842 The death of the English army officer Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell which is named after him. The shell was a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air and was used as an anti-personnel weapon.
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.
1873 Eight clubs met to form the Scottish Football Association. They were Queen's Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Third Lanark, Eastern, Granville and Kilmarnock.
1926 Alan Cobham landed at Croydon Aerodrome, near London, after a 16,000-mile flight to Cape Town and back to establish a commercial air route across Africa.
1927 The lance ceased to be an official weapon in the British Army.
1935 Voluntary driving tests were introduced in Britain and became compulsory in June of the same year.
1936 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase. Fred Varney, a bricklayer, bought a ticket in the Irish sweepstakes and drew Golden Miller. A bookmaker bought a half share in Fred's ticket for £3,000. When Golden Miller won,he won the top prize of £30,000. He had to give the bookmaker £15,000, which left Fred with £18,000. With the winnings Fred and his son-in-law founded a coach company and named it Golden Miller Coaches after the horse. After many years the company was bought and renamed Tellings-Golden Miller. Many of the firm's coaches have a portrait of the horse on the front or side of the vehicle.
1961 Black and white Bank of England five pound notes ceased to be legal tender.
1996 Thomas Hamilton a lone gunman carrying 4 handguns killed 16 children and their teacher at a school in Dunblane, Scotland. The killer fired randomly around the school gym in an attack that lasted just three minutes but caused carnage in the class of five and six year olds. He then turned the gun on himself. Hamilton had been a scout master briefly before being sacked by the Scout Association. The event became a rallying point for anti-gun legislation.
1757 British admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad on board HMS Monarch at Plymouth, for "failing to do his utmost" to relieve Minorca from the French fleet following the Battle of Minorca. In practice, his ships badly needed repair and he was relieved of his command before he could see to his ships or secure the extra forces he required.
1891 The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
1930 A proposed tunnel linking England and France was approved by the Channel Tunnel Committee.
1945 The 617 Dambuster Squadron of the RAF dropped the heaviest bomb of the war (the 22,000-pound "Grand Slam") on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Although known officially as the Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000pound, it was nicknamed 'Ten Ton Tess'.The bomb was designed by Barnes Wallis, who also designed the earlier 'bouncing bomb'.
1960 The Government announced plans for a Thames Barrier to protect London from flooding.
1963 Gerry and the Pacemakers released their first British single, "How Do You Do It?" a song the Beatles had rejected. Their biggest hit was "You'll Never Walk Alone", from the musical Carousel, which has been the adopted anthem of Liverpool Football Club since the mid 1960s.
1966 British film "Born Free" based on the book "Born Free" by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.
2014 Thieves who had built a 50ft tunnel to a cash machine on Liverpool Road, Eccles, got away with more than £80,000. The complex nature of its structure could have taken months to excavate and echoes a similar raid in Fallowfield Shopping Precinct in January 2012. Police said they were looking for 'people acting suspiciously, possibly covered in soil.'
2015 Britain's biggest ever cruise ship, the 141,000-ton Britannia, set off on its maiden voyage a 14 night cruise around the Mediterranean.
2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years.
1824 Building work started on the London Bridge designed by John Rennie.
1877 The first cricket test between Australia and England was played in Melbourne. Australia won by 45 runs.
1906 Rolls-Royce Limited, the British car and aero-engine manufacturing company was founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls.
1909 Selfridges store (named after its owner Harry Gordon Selfridge) was opened in London's Oxford Street.
1949 Clothes rationing which had been introduced during the 2nd World War was ended.
1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title.
1964 Film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married in Montreal. They later divorced then remarried.
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC.
1972 "The Godfather", based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC.
1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown.
1983 A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts.
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title.
1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records.
1990 Iraq hanged British journalist Farzad Bazoft a freelance reporter for The Observer for alleged spying for Israel while working in Iraq.
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4).
1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship.
2008 Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown.
2014 Ireland edges France, 22-20 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis to beat England on points difference and win Six Nations Rugby Championship; final international match for Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll with record 141 caps.
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy.
2019 Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1190 The Crusaders massacred 150 Jews at Clifford's Tower, York, following a wave of attacks against Jews that had moved north from London, to Stamford, Lincoln, King's Lynn, Colchester and Bury St. Edmunds before culminating in the bloodiest atrocity of them all in York.Some Jews committed mass suicide rather than submit to baptism and they set the castle on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths. A few Jews did surrender promising to convert to Christianity but 150 were killed by the angry crowd.
1647 Harlech Castle surrendered in the English Civil War. It was a Royalist stronghold and the last Welsh castle to be taken by Parliament.
1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot (later known as the Royal Welch Fusiliers) was founded to oppose James II and the imminent war with France.
1872 The Wanderers Football Club based in London beat the Royal Engineers 1–0 in the first English FA Cup Final, at Kennington Oval. The number of spectators was 2000 and the winning goal was scored by Morton Betts.
1935 The first driving test pass slip was presented to Mr. R. Beene of Kensington, a pupil of the British School of Motoring. Tests were introduced on a voluntary basis and became compulsory in June.
1940 World War II: James Isbister became the first person killed in a German bombing raid; on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1948 Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behaviour. Holiday was arrested for possession of narcotics in her New York apartment.
1957 England clinches its 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship, the Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup with a 16-3 win over Scotland at Twickenham, London.
1963 England edges Scotland, 10-8 at Twickenham, London to win its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1971 The British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper announced his retirement after being defeated by Joe Bugner.
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge. The old one was sold to an American oil tycoon for £1m and transported to the United States.
1976 Harold Wilson Prime Minister for almost eight years and leader of the Labour Party for 13 years resigned.
1988 A gunman killed 3 mourners and injured at least 50 who had been attending a funeral for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.
1991 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown.
1993 Britain's Chancellor Norman Lamont announced the imposition of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on domestic fuel.
1996 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain heavyweight title.
17th March is St Patrick's Day. St. Patrick was born Circa AD 387 and is the Patron Saint of Ireland.
1040 The death of Harold 'Harefoot' (Harold I), aged just 24, who was King of England for just 5 years. Harold was originally buried in Westminster Abbey but his half-brother Harthacnut who succeeded him had the body exhumed. Harold I was then beheaded and thrown into a fen bordering the Thames. The body was later recovered by fishermen and reburied in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster.
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.
1897 British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada.
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.' Scott recorded 'A very gallant gentleman.’ Oates' body was never found. Date of birth 17th March 1880 - Died 17th March 1912.
1934 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown.
1951 The comic strip character Dennis the Menace appeared in the Beano for the first time. His red and black striped jumper did not feature until a few weeks later and his pet dog Gnasher did not make an appearance until 31st August 1968.
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.
1979 Wales beats England, 27-3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff for its 2nd consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and record 21st outright title; record 4th straight Triple Crown.
1984 Scotland beats France, 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938, Grand Slam first time since 1925.
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.
1990 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship,3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown.
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.
2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur.
2012 Wales beats France, 16-9 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship.
2018 Ireland beats England, 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship; 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown.
2019 Wales beats Ireland, 25-7 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam.
978 Edward the Martyr, King of England and the eldest son of King Edgar, was murdered at Corfe Castle. The murder is thought to have been ordered by his stepmother Aelfryth, mother of Ethelred the Unready who was eager to see her son crowned.
1824 The birth of the brewer John Smith. The brewery's headquarters are in Tadcaster where brewing began in 1758 as the area's hard water proved to be well-suited for brewing.
1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset were sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years for forming the first trade union and introducing collective bargaining for better wages. There was such an outcry that they were pardoned two years after sentencing and allowed to return to England. The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' festival is held in the village of Tolpuddle in the third weekend of July. Each year a wreath is laid at the grave of James Hammett, one of the martyrs.
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo.
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts at (Madison Square Garde, New York City, would last 146 years before closing in 2017.
1882 Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone.
1891 The London to Paris telephone link came into operation.
1900 Ajax soccer club forms in Amsterdam, The Netherlands named after legendary Greek hero.
1922 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was jailed for six years by the British authorities for encouraging public disorder. He was released in February 1924 for an appendicitis operation having served only 2 years of his sentence.
1947 The Queen’s husband, Prince Philip, (born in Corfu - Greece on 10th June 1921), became a naturalized Briton On This Day.
1949 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was proposed. The aim was to 'safeguard the freedom and security of its 26 member countries by political and military means.'
1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes becomes the first person to walk in space
1967 The Torrey Canyon oil tanker with a cargo of 100,000 gallons of crude oil ran aground on rocks between Land's End and the Scilly Isles and its cargo discharged into the sea. The RAF and the Royal Navy were called in to napalm bomb the slick in an attempt to reduce the risk of pollution. In the weeks that followed the accident oil escaped and spread along the shores of the south coast of England and the Normandy coast of France. Worst hit were the Cornish beaches of Marazion and Prah Sands where sludge was up to a foot deep.
1982 Moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse brought a charge of gross indecency against a National Theatre director under the Sexual Offences Act 1956. The play, Romans in Britain featured male rape scenes. The trial was halted after intervention by the Attorney-General.
1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round.
2007 Former England Test cricket batsman and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is found dead one day after his team's defeat to Ireland puts them out of the World Cup in the West Indies the cause of death remains suspicious. In an interview with Fox News, former South African cricketer Clive Rice claimed that Woolmer was murdered by organised crime groups saying "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way".
2015 Two Polish men were rescued after trying to paddle from Britain to Calais in a rowing boat after failing to find jobs in Britain. Last year 28 illegal immigrants were caught trying to smuggle themselves out of Britain.
2018 First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
1649 The House of Commons passed an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it 'useless and dangerous to the people of England'.
1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary, succeeded to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of William III of Orange.
1831 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000.
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match.
1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war took place at Crossbarry in County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 The birth in Caerphilly, of Tommy Cooper (Thomas Frederick Cooper), comedian and magician.
1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship. France were expelled for alleged professionalism.
1938 The BBC televised its first rugby match the Calcutta Cup game between England and Scotland at Twickenham. Scotland won 21-16 to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup.
1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issued his 'Nero Decree' ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed in order to prevent their use by Allied forces as they penetrated deep within Germany.
1958 Britain’s first planetarium opened at Madame Tussaud’s, London.
1965 The Tailor And Cutter Magazine ran an article asking The Rolling Stones to wear ties to save tie makers from financial disaster.
1969 British troops landed on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, after the island declared itself a republic. They were well received and the island remained a UK dependency.
1969 The 1,263 ft. tall TV-mast at Emley Moor in Yorkshire collapsed due to a build up of ice. The current Emley Moor transmitting station built in 1971 is the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom and is a Grade II listed building.
1982 A group of Argentines landed at South Georgia (a dependency of the disputed Falklands Islands which Britain claimed in 1833) and planted their nation's flag. The provocation led to war between Britain and Argentina.
1986 Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Exactly six years later it was announced that they were to separate.
1988 Two British soldiers in civilian clothes blundered into an IRA funeral in Northern Ireland and were kicked and beaten to death.
2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.
2015 Top Gear presenters James May and Richard Hammond rejected an offer to present the season's last three shows without the suspended star, Jeremy Clarkson. On 25th March the BBC's director general confirmed that Jeremy Clarkson's contract would not be renewed, after an 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
1413 The death of King Henry IV of England. It partly fulfilled a prophecy saying that he would die in Jerusalem. He died in Westminster Abbey's Jerusalem Chamber.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment to conduct a second expedition to Venezuela in search of El Dorado. On Raleigh's return to England, the outraged Spanish ambassador successfully demanded that King James reinstate Raleigh's death sentence.
1806 The foundation stone of Dartmoor prison in Devon was laid. It opened three years later to house French prisoners of war but by 1850 the first convicts were being imprisoned.
1917 Dame Vera Lynn was born. During the Second World War she was known as the "Forces Sweetheart". Her songs included "We'll Meet Again" and "White Cliffs of Dover".
1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky.
1966 The football World Cup (Jules Rimet trophy) was stolen whilst being exhibited at Central Hall in London.Fearing it wouldn’t be recovered the FA secretly arranged for a replica to be made but a week later after a massive police hunt The Jules Rimet trophy was found – under a hedge in South London by a dog named Pickles.
1974 An attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne in the Mall by a gunman who fired six shots then tried to drag her out of the car. He fled as passers-by joined her bodyguard and police to foil the attempt and was later caught. Ian Ball, who was charged with attempted murder claimed he did it to highlight the lack of mental care facilities.
1980 Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline broadcast its music programmes sank during a severe storm.
1988 Defending champion Mike Tyson beats Tony Tubbs by TKO in round 2 at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo for the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title.
1999 British balloonist Brian Jones and Swiss physicist Bertrand Piccard became the first to fly a hot-air balloon non-stop around the world.
2017 The hundredth birthday of Dame Vera Lynn. During the Second World War she toured Egypt, India, and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops.
1413 Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, becomes King Henry V of England.
1646 The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold (English Civil War), the last major battle of the First Civil War.
1829 The Duke of Wellington, aged 60, fought a bloodless duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. The reason for the duel was the Duke’s support of Catholic emancipation. Wellington was both Prime Minister and leader of the Tory Party at the time.
1918 Germany's last major offensive of World War One began on The Somme.
1935 The birth of Brian Clough, English footballer and manager of Nottingham Forest from 1975–1993.
1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran.
1946 Labour politician Aneurin Bevan announced the Government's proposals for a free National Health Service, paid for by the taxpayer. Doctors immediately announced the setting-up of a fighting fund to oppose the legislation fearing a loss of earnings.
1953 England beats Scotland, 26-8 at Twickenham, London to clinch their 14th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1961 The Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats.
1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.
1970 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing "All Kinds of Everything" in Amsterdam.
1980 On TV show "Dallas", J.R. is shot.
1981 9-time World Grand Prix motor cycle champion Mike Hailwood along with his 9-year old daughter Michelle are killed when his Rover SD1 collides with a truck near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden in England.
1983 The government announced that the first automatic trains on London's underground could be in operation by early April.
1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came under attack for the breakdown of negotiations at the common market summit in Brussels. It is understood that Mrs. Thatcher asked for an annual rebate for Britain of £730m but was offered £580m, which she refused.
1990 A demonstration in London against the poll tax became a riot. More than 400 people were arrested.
1991 The government announced plans for a new property tax in place of the controversial poll tax.
1999 Ernie Wise comedian died aged 73. 'Morecambe and Wise' were a comedy legend for generations of people in Britain.
2009 Ireland completes a Grand Slam with a 17-15 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship.
2015 Ireland retains Six Nations Rugby Championship with 40-10 win over Scotland at Murrayfield; England needs 26 point win over France for title but can only beat Les Bleus, 55-35 at Twickenham.
1774 Mary Cooper published the first book of English nursery rhymes. Called Tommy Thumb's Song Book,it included Baa Baa Black Sheep whose 'three bags full' is thought to refer to a tax imposed on the wool trade in 1275.
1824 The British parliament purchased 38 paintings (cost £57,000) to establish a national collection now at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.
1888 The English Football League was founded when 12 clubs met at a hotel in Fleet Street, London.
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
1906 The first rugby international between France and England in Paris ended with a 35-0 victory to England.
1912 The birth of Wilfrid Brambell, Irish film and television actor best known for his role as Albert Steptoe in the television series Steptoe and Son.
1926 The first directional road markings were introduced onto British roads (Hyde Park Corner, London). They caused confusion and led to seven accidents on the first day.
1942 The BBC began broadcasting in Morse code to the French Resistance.
1954 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market a market for trading gold and silver reopened.
1963 John Profumo (Secretary of State for War) denied any impropriety with the model Christine Keeler or that he was in any way connected to her disappearance when she had been due to appear as a witness in a trial at the Old Bailey. On 5th June 1963 he resigned after admitting that he had lied about his relationship.
1967 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
2015 The coffin of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, visited locations in Leicestershire associated with his final days ahead of the reinterment at Leicester Cathedral on 26th March.
2017 Four members of the public were killed and fifty injured at Westminster in a terrorist incident on Westminster Bridge. The terrorist, who was attempting an assault on the Houses of Parliament.was shot and killed after he drove his car at pedestrians on the bridge and then knifed PC Keith Palmer to death.
1645 The birth of William Kidd (later known as Captain Kidd). He was tried and executed for piracy in 1701 after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Despite the legends and fiction surrounding Captain Kidd his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name.
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post).
1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, carrying the first Scottish settlers from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde.
1857 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1860 The birth of Horatio William Bottomley English journalist and financier who wanted a life of luxury but whose grandiose business schemes kept leading to bankruptcy. When found guilty of fraud for a third time he was sentenced to seven years in jail. He founded the patriotic journal John Bull,had been a Member of Parliament and had gone through millions of pounds when he died in poverty in 1933.
1861 London's first tramcars began operating, along the Bayswater Road, from Notting Hill to Marble Arch. They had been designed by a Mr. Train who was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1889 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1901 Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. Its name is thought to date from 1897 when the singer was very ill and it became a staple of her diet.The toast was created for her by chef and fan Auguste Escoffier who also created the Peach Melba dessert for her.
1903 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later.
1929 Dr. Roger Bannister the first person in the world to run a mile in under four minutes was born. His world beating record time was 3 min 59.4 sec.
1934 93rd Grand National: Gerry Wilson wins aboard 8/1 Golden Miller in race record 9:20.04.
1945 The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar Cars.
1964 "In His Own Write", a book of short stories, poems and drawings by John Lennon is published.
1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars").
1984 Sarah Tisdall, the young British civil servant who tipped off the Guardian newspaper that Cruise missiles were on their way to Britain, was sent to jail for six months.
1985 Ben Hardwick, Britain’s youngest liver transplant patient at just three years old died in hospital. He inspired a national fund raising campaign.
1987 More than 30 people were injured when a car bomb exploded at the UK Army headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany.
1991 Prime Minister John Major issued his Citizens' Charter. Failing public service providers would be forced to offer customers cash refunds or face government budget cuts.
1998 70th Academy Awards, Titanic wins Oscar.
2011 Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century's biggest film stars died in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
2019 More than 1 million march to demand a new EU referendum in London, England.
2020 COVID-19 lockdowns imposed in South Africa and the United Kingdom while other European nations extend and strengthen their lockdowns.
Great thread lucy ,i let it run then binge read i noticed this March 3rd 1934 The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester United and Stoke City. Spectators numbered 84,569. It was Man City at Maine Rd couldn't let that go sorry like i say cracking thread n1 mate
Great thread lucy ,i let it run then binge read i noticed this March 3rd 1934 The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester United and Stoke City. Spectators numbered 84,569. It was Man City at Maine Rd couldn't let that go sorry like i say cracking thread n1 mate
@stokefc I appreciate all comments and corrections.
Great thread lucy ,i let it run then binge read i noticed this March 3rd 1934 The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester United and Stoke City. Spectators numbered 84,569. It was Man City at Maine Rd couldn't let that go sorry like i say cracking thread n1 mate
@stokefc I appreciate all comments and corrections.
Also how could you miss March 4th 1972 Stoke won their one and only major trophy The League Cup in our 158 year history ,i know unbelieveable isn't it Disappointed lucy must do better
1603 After 44 years of rule Queen Elizabeth I of England died. The English and Scottish crowns were united when James VI of Scotland became King James 1st of England.
1707 The Acts of Union 1707 was signed officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1877 The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames ended in a dead heat. Legend in Oxford has it that the judge 'Honest John' Phelps, was asleep under a bush when the race finished leading him to announce the result as a 'dead heat to Oxford by four feet'.
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world.
1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners began breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 Broadcaster Alastair Cooke read his first 'Letter from America' on BBC Radio. His weekly broadcasts continued for more than 50 years.
1951 The Oxford boat sank during the University boat race. Cambridge won the rematch two days later.
1956 110th Grand National: race best remembered for Devon Loch's inexplicable fall on final straight just 40 yards from a certain victory ridden by Di ck Francis, Dave Di ck wins aboard E.S.B.
1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761).
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys.
1964 Stansted was chosen as the site of London's third major airport.
1970 Boxer Henry Cooper retained his heavyweight title beating challenger Jack Bodell.
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
1976 The death of British Field Marshal Montgomery one of the outstanding Allied commanders in World War II.
1978 The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz aground in the English Channel since 16th March split in two spilling the last of her 1.6 million barrels of oil.
1981 The 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs was rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping.
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska.
1991 Ayrton Senna wins the Brazilian Grand Prix for the 1st time, at Interlagos, São Paulo.
1992 Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine dating back almost 151 years announced that it would cease publication because of financial losses.
1994 The new Jewel House at the Tower of London, was opened by the Queen.
1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
1999 "The Matrix" film written and directed by The Wachowskis starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres.
2018 Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing match ball with an object during 3rd Cricket Test in Cape Town, resulting in an infamous ball tampering scandal.
Just for you @stokefc to relive your one and only glory year... .
League Cup 1971/72 Results.
First Round.
Bye.
Second Round.
Wed Sep 8 Southport 1 - 2 Stoke City.
Third Round.
Wed Oct 6 Oxford United 1 - 1 Stoke City. Mon Oct 18 Stoke City 2 - 0 Oxford United.
Fourth Round.
Wed Oct 27 Manchester United 1 - 1 Stoke City. Mon Nov 8 Stoke City 0 - 0 Manchester United. Mon Nov 15 Stoke City 2 - 1 Manchester United.
Fifth Round.
Tue Nov 23 Bristol Rovers 2 - 4 Stoke City.
Semi-Finals (home and away legs).
Wed Dec 8 Stoke City 1 - 2 West Ham United. Wed Dec 15 West Ham United 0 - 1 Stoke City. Stoke and West Ham finished 2-2 on aggregate. Wed Jan 5 Stoke City 0 - 0 West Ham United. (the match was played at Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday FC). Wed Jan 26 Stoke City 3 - 2 West Ham United. (the match was played at Old Trafford, Manchester United FC).
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1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000.
1682 The Chelsea Hospital a retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers who were unfit for further duty due to injury or old age was founded by Charles II.
1702 The Daily Courant the first successful English newspaper was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet but lasted until 1735 when it was merged with the Daily Gazetteer.
1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London.
1818 The publication of Mary's Shelley's book 'Frankenstein' frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. She was married for six years to the poet PB Shelley.
1819 The birth at White Coppice in Lancashire, of Sir Henry Tate, English sugar producer & founder of London's Tate Gallery.
1845 A Maori uprising against the British began in New Zealand. Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka.
1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners.
1858 The end of the Indian Mutiny that had lasted for 10 months. The Indian sepoys had mutinied after believing that their rifle cartridges had been lubricated in animal fat.
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England destroyed 800 houses and killed 270 people in Sheffield when the Low Bradfield Reservoir bursts its banks while it was being filled for the first time. The claims for damages formed one of the largest insurance claims of the Victorian period.
1885 The birth of Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of world land and water speed records.
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.
A group of Americans in California with a message for their fellow countrymen.
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
1945 The huge Krupps munitions factory in Germany was destroyed when 1,000 Allied bombers took part in the biggest ever daylight raid.
1955 The death aged 73 of Sir Alexander Fleming the British Nobel Prize winning bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across the bomb was without its nuclear capsule.
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed.
1967 Pink Floyd releases 1st single "Arnold Layne".
1971 Jim Morrison (The Doors) leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted.
1988 The Bank of England pound note first introduced on 12th March 1797, ceased to be legal tender in Britain at midnight. When the deadline for returning old notes was reached it was estimated that some 70 million were still outstanding.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
2013 Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his former wife Vicky Pryce were both jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice. The pair sentenced at Southwark Crown Court were convicted after she took driving licence points for him after he was caught speeding in 2003.
2014 Dozens of firefighters were called out to deal with a blaze .... at a fire station. The retained fire crew at Downham Market in Norfolk could do nothing because their own fire engine was caught up in the blaze that started in their own building.
2017 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins.
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.
On this date in 1977 most of the 25,000 copies of the A&M debut release of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN / NO FEELING were scrapped, (March 11th, 1977).
On 10th March 1977, the Sex Pistols signed to A&M Records,having been dropped by EMI,in a major publicity stunt outside Buckingham Palace,but sacked the band a few days later after Vicious threw up in the managing director's office (plus alleged sink-ripping, secretary-seducing and punch-ups, Rotten making threatening remarks at a London Club, band aggro on a flight, etc).
A&M execs were duly up in arms and dropped the Pistols. The majority of the 25,000 copies of ‘God Save The Queen’ were trashed (the few genuine ones that survive find themselves among the most highly collectible and valuable records in the world today).
On 18th May, the great opportunist Branson then took them on as a means of advancing Virgin's brand-image from hippie folk-rock and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. ‘God Save The Queen’ (with new b-side ‘Did you no wrong’) was rush released shortly after to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations.
The original B-side, ‘No Feeling’ (note the singular ‘feeling’) contained a different mix from the one that appeared on Never Mind the Bol locks (where it was given the pluralised titled of ‘No Feelings’).
1470 War of the Roses - The Battle of Losecoat Field (also known as the Battle of Empingham). The outcome was a victory for Yorkists Forces over Lancastrian Forces.
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony.
1664 New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II of England granted New Jersey to his brother James, Duke of York.
1689 The start of the Williamite War in Ireland; a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland. The War was to have a lasting effect on Ireland, confirming British and Protestant rule over the country for over a century. The iconic Williamite victories of the Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne are still celebrated by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland today.
1710 Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule Britannia was born. He also wrote a version of God Save the King which was to become the British national anthem.
1868 Henry O'Farrell from Dublin attempted to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria whilst he was on a tour of Australia. The attack caused great embarrassment in the colony and led to a wave of anti-Irish sentiment directed at all Irish people including Protestant Loyalists.
1881 Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his 300-mile march to the sea in protest against the British tax law securing a monopoly for salt. Joined by thousands of protesters Gandhi and his followers eventually reached the Arabian Sea where they made their own salt by evaporating sea water. The march which resulted in the arrest of Gandhi and 60,000 others earned new international respect and support for the leader and his movement.
1935 Britain imposed a 30 mph speed limit in built up areas.
1941 Islanders on the Hebrides hid thousands of bottles of shipwrecked whisky from government officials. The episode was celebrated in the film "Whisky Galore."
1944 Britain banned all travel to and from Ireland and Ulster in an effort to prevent German spies operating in neutral Eire from learning of the Allied invasion preparations taking place in Britain.
1950 The Llandow air disaster occurred near Sigingstone in Wales. 80 people died when their aircraft crashed making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano'.
1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman, US photographer.
1984 By the end of 12th March more than half of the country's 187,000 mineworkers were on strike over job cuts.
2013 The people of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory. Of 1,517 votes cast in the two-day referendum - on a turnout of more than 90% - 1,513 were in favour while just three votes were against.
1764 The birth in Falloden, Northumberland, of Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister. He is linked with Earl Grey tea after a blended tea was supplied to him as a gift and the sample was copied.
1770 The birth, in Leicester, of Daniel Lambert a jailer and animal breeder, famous for his unusually large size. By the time he was aged 35 he weighed 50 stone and was the heaviest authenticated person at the time. Lambert was athletically active,abstained from alcohol and did not eat unusual amounts of food. Poverty forced him to move to London and put himself on exhibition to raise money,he died suddenly aged 39.
Picture of the Daniel Lambert chair and his portrait in Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester.
1842 The death of the English army officer Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell which is named after him. The shell was a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air and was used as an anti-personnel weapon.
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
The name is linked to Samuel Wilson a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.
1873 Eight clubs met to form the Scottish Football Association. They were Queen's Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Third Lanark, Eastern, Granville and Kilmarnock.
1926 Alan Cobham landed at Croydon Aerodrome, near London, after a 16,000-mile flight to Cape Town and back to establish a commercial air route across Africa.
1927 The lance ceased to be an official weapon in the British Army.
1935 Voluntary driving tests were introduced in Britain and became compulsory in June of the same year.
1936 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase.
Fred Varney, a bricklayer, bought a ticket in the Irish sweepstakes and drew Golden Miller. A bookmaker bought a half share in Fred's ticket for £3,000. When Golden Miller won,he won the top prize of £30,000. He had to give the bookmaker £15,000, which left Fred with £18,000. With the winnings Fred and his son-in-law founded a coach company and named it Golden Miller Coaches after the horse. After many years the company was bought and renamed Tellings-Golden Miller. Many of the firm's coaches have a portrait of the horse on the front or side of the vehicle.
1961 Black and white Bank of England five pound notes ceased to be legal tender.
1996 Thomas Hamilton a lone gunman carrying 4 handguns killed 16 children and their teacher at a school in Dunblane, Scotland. The killer fired randomly around the school gym in an attack that lasted just three minutes but caused carnage in the class of five and six year olds. He then turned the gun on himself. Hamilton had been a scout master briefly before being sacked by the Scout Association. The event became a rallying point for anti-gun legislation.
1757 British admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad on board HMS Monarch at Plymouth, for "failing to do his utmost" to relieve Minorca from the French fleet following the Battle of Minorca. In practice, his ships badly needed repair and he was relieved of his command before he could see to his ships or secure the extra forces he required.
1891 The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
1930 A proposed tunnel linking England and France was approved by the Channel Tunnel Committee.
1945 The 617 Dambuster Squadron of the RAF dropped the heaviest bomb of the war (the 22,000-pound "Grand Slam") on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Although known officially as the Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000pound, it was nicknamed 'Ten Ton Tess'.The bomb was designed by Barnes Wallis, who also designed the earlier 'bouncing bomb'.
1960 The Government announced plans for a Thames Barrier to protect London from flooding.
1963 Gerry and the Pacemakers released their first British single, "How Do You Do It?" a song the Beatles had rejected. Their biggest hit was "You'll Never Walk Alone", from the musical Carousel, which has been the adopted anthem of Liverpool Football Club since the mid 1960s.
1966 British film "Born Free" based on the book "Born Free" by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.
2014 Thieves who had built a 50ft tunnel to a cash machine on Liverpool Road, Eccles, got away with more than £80,000. The complex nature of its structure could have taken months to excavate and echoes a similar raid in Fallowfield Shopping Precinct in January 2012. Police said they were looking for 'people acting suspiciously, possibly covered in soil.'
2015 Britain's biggest ever cruise ship, the 141,000-ton Britannia, set off on its maiden voyage a 14 night cruise around the Mediterranean.
2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years.
44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.
1824 Building work started on the London Bridge designed by John Rennie.
1877 The first cricket test between Australia and England was played in Melbourne. Australia won by 45 runs.
1906 Rolls-Royce Limited, the British car and aero-engine manufacturing company was founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls.
1909 Selfridges store (named after its owner Harry Gordon Selfridge) was opened in London's Oxford Street.
1949 Clothes rationing which had been introduced during the 2nd World War was ended.
1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title.
1964 Film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married in Montreal. They later divorced then remarried.
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC.
1972 "The Godfather", based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC.
1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown.
1983 A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts.
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title.
1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records.
1990 Iraq hanged British journalist Farzad Bazoft a freelance reporter for The Observer for alleged spying for Israel while working in Iraq.
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4).
1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship.
2008 Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown.
2014 Ireland edges France, 22-20 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis to beat England on points difference and win Six Nations Rugby Championship; final international match for Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll with record 141 caps.
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy.
2019 Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1190 The Crusaders massacred 150 Jews at Clifford's Tower, York, following a wave of attacks against Jews that had moved north from London, to Stamford, Lincoln, King's Lynn, Colchester and Bury St. Edmunds before culminating in the bloodiest atrocity of them all in York.Some Jews committed mass suicide rather than submit to baptism and they set the castle on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths. A few Jews did surrender promising to convert to Christianity but 150 were killed by the angry crowd.
1647 Harlech Castle surrendered in the English Civil War. It was a Royalist stronghold and the last Welsh castle to be taken by Parliament.
1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot (later known as the Royal Welch Fusiliers) was founded to oppose James II and the imminent war with France.
1872 The Wanderers Football Club based in London beat the Royal Engineers 1–0 in the first English FA Cup Final, at Kennington Oval. The number of spectators was 2000 and the winning goal was scored by Morton Betts.
1935 The first driving test pass slip was presented to Mr. R. Beene of Kensington, a pupil of the British School of Motoring. Tests were introduced on a voluntary basis and became compulsory in June.
1940 World War II: James Isbister became the first person killed in a German bombing raid; on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1948 Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behaviour. Holiday was arrested for possession of narcotics in her New York apartment.
1957 England clinches its 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship, the Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup with a 16-3 win over Scotland at Twickenham, London.
1963 England edges Scotland, 10-8 at Twickenham, London to win its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1971 The British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper announced his retirement after being defeated by Joe Bugner.
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge. The old one was sold to an American oil tycoon for £1m and transported to the United States.
1976 Harold Wilson Prime Minister for almost eight years and leader of the Labour Party for 13 years resigned.
1988 A gunman killed 3 mourners and injured at least 50 who had been attending a funeral for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.
1991 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown.
1993 Britain's Chancellor Norman Lamont announced the imposition of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on domestic fuel.
1996 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain heavyweight title.
1996 England beats Ireland, 28-15 at Twickenham for a second consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown.
2001 According to a health survey 16th March 2001 was the only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves.
2013 Wales routs England by a record 30-3 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to retain their Six Nation Rugby Championship.
2019 Beached dead whale found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, in Mabini, Philippines.
17th March is St Patrick's Day. St. Patrick was born Circa AD 387 and is the Patron Saint of Ireland.
1040 The death of Harold 'Harefoot' (Harold I), aged just 24, who was King of England for just 5 years. Harold was originally buried in Westminster Abbey but his half-brother Harthacnut who succeeded him had the body exhumed. Harold I was then beheaded and thrown into a fen bordering the Thames. The body was later recovered by fishermen and reburied in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster.
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.
1897 British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada.
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.' Scott recorded 'A very gallant gentleman.’ Oates' body was never found. Date of birth 17th March 1880 - Died 17th March 1912.
1934 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown.
1951 The comic strip character Dennis the Menace appeared in the Beano for the first time. His red and black striped jumper did not feature until a few weeks later and his pet dog Gnasher did not make an appearance until 31st August 1968.
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.
1979 Wales beats England, 27-3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff for its 2nd consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and record 21st outright title; record 4th straight Triple Crown.
1984 Scotland beats France, 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938, Grand Slam first time since 1925.
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.
1990 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship,3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown.
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.
2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur.
2012 Wales beats France, 16-9 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship.
2018 Ireland beats England, 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship; 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown.
2019 Wales beats Ireland, 25-7 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam.
978 Edward the Martyr, King of England and the eldest son of King Edgar, was murdered at Corfe Castle. The murder is thought to have been ordered by his stepmother Aelfryth, mother of Ethelred the Unready who was eager to see her son crowned.
1824 The birth of the brewer John Smith. The brewery's headquarters are in Tadcaster where brewing began in 1758 as the area's hard water proved to be well-suited for brewing.
1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset were sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years for forming the first trade union and introducing collective bargaining for better wages.
There was such an outcry that they were pardoned two years after sentencing and allowed to return to England. The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' festival is held in the village of Tolpuddle in the third weekend of July. Each year a wreath is laid at the grave of James Hammett, one of the martyrs.
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo.
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts at (Madison Square Garde, New York City, would last 146 years before closing in 2017.
1882 Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone.
1891 The London to Paris telephone link came into operation.
1900 Ajax soccer club forms in Amsterdam, The Netherlands named after legendary Greek hero.
1922 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was jailed for six years by the British authorities for encouraging public disorder. He was released in February 1924 for an appendicitis operation having served only 2 years of his sentence.
1947 The Queen’s husband, Prince Philip, (born in Corfu - Greece on 10th June 1921), became a naturalized Briton On This Day.
1949 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was proposed. The aim was to 'safeguard the freedom and security of its 26 member countries by political and military means.'
1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes becomes the first person to walk in space
1967 The Torrey Canyon oil tanker with a cargo of 100,000 gallons of crude oil ran aground on rocks between Land's End and the Scilly Isles and its cargo discharged into the sea. The RAF and the Royal Navy were called in to napalm bomb the slick in an attempt to reduce the risk of pollution. In the weeks that followed the accident oil escaped and spread along the shores of the south coast of England and the Normandy coast of France. Worst hit were the Cornish beaches of Marazion and Prah Sands where sludge was up to a foot deep.
1982 Moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse brought a charge of gross indecency against a National Theatre director under the Sexual Offences Act 1956. The play, Romans in Britain featured male rape scenes. The trial was halted after intervention by the Attorney-General.
1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round.
2007 Former England Test cricket batsman and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is found dead one day after his team's defeat to Ireland puts them out of the World Cup in the West Indies the cause of death remains suspicious. In an interview with Fox News, former South African cricketer Clive Rice claimed that Woolmer was murdered by organised crime groups saying "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way".
2015 Two Polish men were rescued after trying to paddle from Britain to Calais in a rowing boat after failing to find jobs in Britain. Last year 28 illegal immigrants were caught trying to smuggle themselves out of Britain.
2018 First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
1649 The House of Commons passed an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it 'useless and dangerous to the people of England'.
1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary, succeeded to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of William III of Orange.
1831 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000.
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match.
1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war took place at Crossbarry in County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 The birth in Caerphilly, of Tommy Cooper (Thomas Frederick Cooper), comedian and magician.
1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship. France were expelled for alleged professionalism.
1938 The BBC televised its first rugby match the Calcutta Cup game between England and Scotland at Twickenham. Scotland won 21-16 to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup.
1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issued his 'Nero Decree' ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed in order to prevent their use by Allied forces as they penetrated deep within Germany.
1958 Britain’s first planetarium opened at Madame Tussaud’s, London.
1965 The Tailor And Cutter Magazine ran an article asking The Rolling Stones to wear ties to save tie makers from financial disaster.
1969 British troops landed on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, after the island declared itself a republic. They were well received and the island remained a UK dependency.
1969 The 1,263 ft. tall TV-mast at Emley Moor in Yorkshire collapsed due to a build up of ice. The current Emley Moor transmitting station built in 1971 is the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom and is a Grade II listed building.
1982 A group of Argentines landed at South Georgia (a dependency of the disputed Falklands Islands which Britain claimed in 1833) and planted their nation's flag. The provocation led to war between Britain and Argentina.
1986 Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Exactly six years later it was announced that they were to separate.
1988 Two British soldiers in civilian clothes blundered into an IRA funeral in Northern Ireland and were kicked and beaten to death.
2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.
2015 Top Gear presenters James May and Richard Hammond rejected an offer to present the season's last three shows without the suspended star, Jeremy Clarkson. On 25th March the BBC's director general confirmed that Jeremy Clarkson's contract would not be renewed, after an 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
1413 The death of King Henry IV of England. It partly fulfilled a prophecy saying that he would die in Jerusalem. He died in Westminster Abbey's Jerusalem Chamber.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment to conduct a second expedition to Venezuela in search of El Dorado. On Raleigh's return to England, the outraged Spanish ambassador successfully demanded that King James reinstate Raleigh's death sentence.
1806 The foundation stone of Dartmoor prison in Devon was laid. It opened three years later to house French prisoners of war but by 1850 the first convicts were being imprisoned.
1917 Dame Vera Lynn was born. During the Second World War she was known as the "Forces Sweetheart". Her songs included "We'll Meet Again" and "White Cliffs of Dover".
1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky.
1966 The football World Cup (Jules Rimet trophy) was stolen whilst being exhibited at Central Hall in London.Fearing it wouldn’t be recovered the FA secretly arranged for a replica to be made but a week later after a massive police hunt The Jules Rimet trophy was found – under a hedge in South London by a dog named Pickles.
1974 An attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne in the Mall by a gunman who fired six shots then tried to drag her out of the car. He fled as passers-by joined her bodyguard and police to foil the attempt and was later caught. Ian Ball, who was charged with attempted murder claimed he did it to highlight the lack of mental care facilities.
1980 Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline broadcast its music programmes sank during a severe storm.
1988 Defending champion Mike Tyson beats Tony Tubbs by TKO in round 2 at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo for the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title.
1999 British balloonist Brian Jones and Swiss physicist Bertrand Piccard became the first to fly a hot-air balloon non-stop around the world.
2017 The hundredth birthday of Dame Vera Lynn. During the Second World War she toured Egypt, India, and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops.
1413 Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, becomes King Henry V of England.
1646 The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold (English Civil War), the last major battle of the First Civil War.
1829 The Duke of Wellington, aged 60, fought a bloodless duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. The reason for the duel was the Duke’s support of Catholic emancipation. Wellington was both Prime Minister and leader of the Tory Party at the time.
1918 Germany's last major offensive of World War One began on The Somme.
1935 The birth of Brian Clough, English footballer and manager of Nottingham Forest from 1975–1993.
1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran.
1946 Labour politician Aneurin Bevan announced the Government's proposals for a free National Health Service, paid for by the taxpayer. Doctors immediately announced the setting-up of a fighting fund to oppose the legislation fearing a loss of earnings.
1953 England beats Scotland, 26-8 at Twickenham, London to clinch their 14th Five Nations Rugby Championship.
1961 The Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats.
1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.
1970 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing "All Kinds of Everything" in Amsterdam.
1980 On TV show "Dallas", J.R. is shot.
1981 9-time World Grand Prix motor cycle champion Mike Hailwood along with his 9-year old daughter Michelle are killed when his Rover SD1 collides with a truck near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden in England.
1983 The government announced that the first automatic trains on London's underground could be in operation by early April.
1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came under attack for the breakdown of negotiations at the common market summit in Brussels. It is understood that Mrs. Thatcher asked for an annual rebate for Britain of £730m but was offered £580m, which she refused.
1990 A demonstration in London against the poll tax became a riot. More than 400 people were arrested.
1991 The government announced plans for a new property tax in place of the controversial poll tax.
1999 Ernie Wise comedian died aged 73. 'Morecambe and Wise' were a comedy legend for generations of people in Britain.
2009 Ireland completes a Grand Slam with a 17-15 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship.
2015 Ireland retains Six Nations Rugby Championship with 40-10 win over Scotland at Murrayfield; England needs 26 point win over France for title but can only beat Les Bleus, 55-35 at Twickenham.
1774 Mary Cooper published the first book of English nursery rhymes. Called Tommy Thumb's Song Book,it included Baa Baa Black Sheep whose 'three bags full' is thought to refer to a tax imposed on the wool trade in 1275.
1824 The British parliament purchased 38 paintings (cost £57,000) to establish a national collection now at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.
1888 The English Football League was founded when 12 clubs met at a hotel in Fleet Street, London.
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
1906 The first rugby international between France and England in Paris ended with a 35-0 victory to England.
1912 The birth of Wilfrid Brambell, Irish film and television actor best known for his role as Albert Steptoe in the television series Steptoe and Son.
1926 The first directional road markings were introduced onto British roads (Hyde Park Corner, London). They caused confusion and led to seven accidents on the first day.
1942 The BBC began broadcasting in Morse code to the French Resistance.
1954 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market a market for trading gold and silver reopened.
1963 John Profumo (Secretary of State for War) denied any impropriety with the model Christine Keeler or that he was in any way connected to her disappearance when she had been due to appear as a witness in a trial at the Old Bailey. On 5th June 1963 he resigned after admitting that he had lied about his relationship.
1967 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
2015 The coffin of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, visited locations in Leicestershire associated with his final days ahead of the reinterment at Leicester Cathedral on 26th March.
2017 Four members of the public were killed and fifty injured at Westminster in a terrorist incident on Westminster Bridge. The terrorist, who was attempting an assault on the Houses of Parliament.was shot and killed after he drove his car at pedestrians on the bridge and then knifed PC Keith Palmer to death.
1645 The birth of William Kidd (later known as Captain Kidd). He was tried and executed for piracy in 1701 after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Despite the legends and fiction surrounding Captain Kidd his actual career was punctuated by only a handful of skirmishes followed by a desperate quest to clear his name.
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post).
1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, carrying the first Scottish settlers from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde.
1857 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City.
1860 The birth of Horatio William Bottomley English journalist and financier who wanted a life of luxury but whose grandiose business schemes kept leading to bankruptcy. When found guilty of fraud for a third time he was sentenced to seven years in jail. He founded the patriotic journal John Bull,had been a Member of Parliament and had gone through millions of pounds when he died in poverty in 1933.
1861 London's first tramcars began operating, along the Bayswater Road, from Notting Hill to Marble Arch. They had been designed by a Mr. Train who was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1889 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1901 Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. Its name is thought to date from 1897 when the singer was very ill and it became a staple of her diet.The toast was created for her by chef and fan Auguste Escoffier who also created the Peach Melba dessert for her.
1903 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later.
1929 Dr. Roger Bannister the first person in the world to run a mile in under four minutes was born. His world beating record time was 3 min 59.4 sec.
1934 93rd Grand National: Gerry Wilson wins aboard 8/1 Golden Miller in race record 9:20.04.
1945 The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar Cars.
1964 "In His Own Write", a book of short stories, poems and drawings by John Lennon is published.
1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title.
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars").
1984 Sarah Tisdall, the young British civil servant who tipped off the Guardian newspaper that Cruise missiles were on their way to Britain, was sent to jail for six months.
1985 Ben Hardwick, Britain’s youngest liver transplant patient at just three years old died in hospital. He inspired a national fund raising campaign.
1987 More than 30 people were injured when a car bomb exploded at the UK Army headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany.
1991 Prime Minister John Major issued his Citizens' Charter. Failing public service providers would be forced to offer customers cash refunds or face government budget cuts.
1998 70th Academy Awards, Titanic wins Oscar.
2011 Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century's biggest film stars died in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
2019 More than 1 million march to demand a new EU referendum in London, England.
2020 COVID-19 lockdowns imposed in South Africa and the United Kingdom while other European nations extend and strengthen their lockdowns.
1934 The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester United and Stoke City. Spectators numbered 84,569.
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1603 After 44 years of rule Queen Elizabeth I of England died. The English and Scottish crowns were united when James VI of Scotland became King James 1st of England.
1707 The Acts of Union 1707 was signed officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1877 The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames ended in a dead heat. Legend in Oxford has it that the judge 'Honest John' Phelps, was asleep under a bush when the race finished leading him to announce the result as a 'dead heat to Oxford by four feet'.
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world.
1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners began breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 Broadcaster Alastair Cooke read his first 'Letter from America' on BBC Radio. His weekly broadcasts continued for more than 50 years.
1951 The Oxford boat sank during the University boat race. Cambridge won the rematch two days later.
1956 110th Grand National: race best remembered for Devon Loch's inexplicable fall on final straight just 40 yards from a certain victory ridden by Di ck Francis, Dave Di ck wins aboard E.S.B.
1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761).
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys.
1964 Stansted was chosen as the site of London's third major airport.
1970 Boxer Henry Cooper retained his heavyweight title beating challenger Jack Bodell.
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
1976 The death of British Field Marshal Montgomery one of the outstanding Allied commanders in World War II.
1978 The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz aground in the English Channel since 16th March split in two spilling the last of her 1.6 million barrels of oil.
1981 The 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs was rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping.
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska.
1991 Ayrton Senna wins the Brazilian Grand Prix for the 1st time, at Interlagos, São Paulo.
1992 Punch, Britain's oldest satirical magazine dating back almost 151 years announced that it would cease publication because of financial losses.
1994 The new Jewel House at the Tower of London, was opened by the Queen.
1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
1999 "The Matrix" film written and directed by The Wachowskis starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres.
2018 Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing match ball with an object during 3rd Cricket Test in Cape Town, resulting in an infamous ball tampering scandal.
League Cup 1971/72 Results.
First Round.
Bye.
Second Round.
Wed Sep 8 Southport 1 - 2 Stoke City.
Third Round.
Wed Oct 6 Oxford United 1 - 1 Stoke City.
Mon Oct 18 Stoke City 2 - 0 Oxford United.
Fourth Round.
Wed Oct 27 Manchester United 1 - 1 Stoke City.
Mon Nov 8 Stoke City 0 - 0 Manchester United.
Mon Nov 15 Stoke City 2 - 1 Manchester United.
Fifth Round.
Tue Nov 23 Bristol Rovers 2 - 4 Stoke City.
Semi-Finals (home and away legs).
Wed Dec 8 Stoke City 1 - 2 West Ham United.
Wed Dec 15 West Ham United 0 - 1 Stoke City.
Stoke and West Ham finished 2-2 on aggregate.
Wed Jan 5 Stoke City 0 - 0 West Ham United.
(the match was played at Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday FC).
Wed Jan 26 Stoke City 3 - 2 West Ham United.
(the match was played at Old Trafford, Manchester United FC).
Final (at Wembley Stadium, London).
Sat Mar 4 Stoke City 2 - 1 Chelsea.