On this day

march 3rd events

1991-an amateur video captures the beating of rodney king by LA cops.tut tut

2005-steve fossett becomes the first person to fly a plane non-stop around the world.

1969 - Apollo 9 was launched by NASA to test a lunar module.

1985 - The TV show "Moonlighting" premiered.

Elvis in Britain
see http://www.rockmine.com/Elvis.html

1938 - Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia

1931 Cab Calloway records 'Minnie the Moocher' .The first jazz album to sell 1 million copies.


1945 Finland declares war on Germany (retroactive to 15/9/1944)


1966: The BBC says it will begin Colour Programmes next year.

Some random historical events from March 4th.


1929 – Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President of the United States.


1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.


1982 – NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.

1947 - France and Britain signed an alliance treaty.

1975 - Queen Elizabeth knighted Charlie Chaplin.

march 4th birthdays.

donny tourette..29
patsy kensit...42
willie thorne...56

1918-spanish flu pandemic begins,killing up to 100 million people.

1945-the queen,as princess elizabeth joins the territorials as a driver.

1980-robert mugabe becomes zimbabwe's first black prime minister

Famous events that have happened on March 6th.


1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana


1983 – The first United States Football League game is played


1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers