On this day

March 15th birthdays

Bret Michaels-45
David Cronenberg-67
Eva Longoria-35

1962-The Liberals first by-election victory for four years in Orpington,Kent.

1946 Lynda La Plante was born.

1949 - Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly 4 years after World War II ended.

1975 The Goodies entered the UK charts with 'Funky Gibbon'.

1984 Jean Jones from Merry Hill, Wolverhampton became the first British patient to receive a combined heart and lung transplant

1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.


1995 - NASA astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to visit the Russian space station Mir.


2000 - Thomas Wilson Ferebee died aged 81. He was the bombardier of the Enola Gay and was the person that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

march 16th birthdays

Jimmy Nail-56
Peaches Geldof-21
Theo Walcott-21

1872-Wanderers FC win the first FA Cup,the oldest football competition in the world,beating Royal Enginneers AFC 1-0 at The Oval in Kensington,London.

461 (or493) According to tradition, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul

1919 Nat "King" Cole was Born

1938 Rudolf Nureyev was Born

1959 The Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India

1969 -Golda Meir became the fourth premier of Israel.

Forgot to post this yesterday, St. Patrick's day.
It was also the end of the old PartyGirls program on freeview channel 46, in the early hours of the morning of 17 March 2009.

0037 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act.

1891 - Britain became linked to the continent of Europe by telephone.

1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

1915 - Pluto was photographed for the first time. However, it was not known at the time.

1994 - The largest omelet in history was made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan.

2002 - Actor Ben Kingsley was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.