Saturday 19 March 2011

On This Day - 19th March


1848 - Wyatt Earp born
1928 - Patrick McGoohan born
1930 - Former prime minister Arthir Balfour dies
1935 - Phyllis Newman born
1936 - Ursula Andress born
1947 - Glenn Close born
1955 - Bruce Willis born
1964 - Three new cities are proposed for south east England as part of the largest regional expansion plan in Britain as the population is expected to boom by three million.
1970 - Crowds of East Germans cheer West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt as he meets East Germany's leader Willi Stoph for the first time since the two countries were divided.
1976 - Buckingham Palace announces that Princess Margaret will separate from Lord Snowdon after 16 years of marriage.
1982 - A group of Argentines land on the island of St Georgia a dependancy of the British colony of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic and plant their nation's flag.
1992 - Buckingham Palace announces the Duke and Duchess of York are to separate due to irreconcilable differences.

2011 - Allied forces begin air strikes on Libya to enforce the new U.N. 'No Fly Zone' over the country. Also the Moon reaches it's closet perihelion (closets point)for almost 19 years.

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