On this day

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MAR 8

1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.

Births

1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)

1946 – Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)

1947 – Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night

1954 – Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)

1957 – Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden)

1958 – Gary Numan, British singer

Deaths

2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor

2008 – Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter

 

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MAR 9

1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.

1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Births

1915 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot

1933 – Lloyd Price, American singer

1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space

1942 – Mark Lindsay, American musician (Paul Revere & The Raiders)

1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind)

1945 – Robin Trower, British rock musician

1946 – Jim Cregan, British rock musician

Deaths

1993 – Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist

2007 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston)

 

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MAR 10

Events

1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.

Births

1940 – Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)

1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist (Boston)

1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress

Deaths

1986 – Ray Milland, British actor

1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer

1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor

2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer

2005 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian

 

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MAR 12

Events

1664 – New Jersey becomes a colony of England.

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain

1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

Births

1917 – Googie Withers, British actress

1948 – James Taylor, American musician

1970 – John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver

 

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MAR 13

Events

1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory

1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 kindergarten children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

Births

1939 – Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter

Deaths

1995 – Odette, French-born WWII heroine

 

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MAR 14

Events

1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.

1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Births

1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, British motorcycle pioneer (Vincent Black Shadow, Vincent Rapide and Vincent Black Lightning)

1933 – Sir Michael Caine, British actor

1945 – Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago)

1961 – Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver

Deaths

2007 – Gareth Hunt, English actor

 

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