Published at 15:36, Wednesday, 09 March 2011

OUR man with the facts and figures at his fingertips gives us March’s anniversaries.;

March 1 1810: Frédéric Chopin, composer, born;

March 2 2008: Paul Raymond, porn king (Geoffrey Anthony Quinn), dies;

March 3 2005: Steve Fossett completes first round-the-world solo flight without refueling in 67 hrs 2 mins;

March 4 1152: Frederick I Barbarossa elected King of Germans;

March 5 1512: Gerhard Kramer (Mercator), cartographer, born;

March 6 1961: London minicabs introduced;

March 7 1945: Bridge at Remagen taken;

March 8 1945: Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees born;

March 9 1934: Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, born;

March 10 1902: Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter, born;

March 11 1990: Lithuania declares independence from USSR;

March 12 1908: Mauretania sets eastbound Atlantic record: 5 days 5 mins;

March 13 1842: Henry Shrapnel, English artillery officer, dies;

March 14 1967: Body of J. F. Kennedy moved to permanent burial site in Arlington National Cemetery ;

March 15 1917: Tsar Nicholas abdicates (Mar 2 in Julian calendar);

March 16 1935: Mr L. Beane passes first driving test;

March 17 1751: Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist, born;

March 18 1965: Soviet cosmonaut makes first space walk;

March 19 1848: Wyatt Earp born;

March 20 1898: First recorded international cross-country race, Ville d’Avray near Paris;

March 21 1980: J.R. Ewing shot by unknown hand in Dallas;

March 22 1646: Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, last of English Civil War;

March 23 1842: Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French novelist, dies;

March 24 1905: Jules Verne dies;

March 25 1306: Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland;

March 26 2006: Smoking banned in public places in Scotland;

March 27 1923: Sir James Dewar, inventor of vacuum flask, dies;

March 28 1920: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry;

March 29 1871: Royal Albert Hall opens;

March 30 1746: Painter Francisco Goya born;

March 31 1974: British Airways formed from BEA and BOAC.

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