Tuesday 8 March 2011

On This Day - 8th March


1909 - Claire Trevor born
1923 - Cyd Charisse born
1942 - Java captured by Japanese
1943 - Lynn Redgrave born
1945 - Micky Dolenz born
1950 - Car manufacturers Rover unveil the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.
1959 - Aidan Quinn born
1963 - Kathy Ireland born
1971 - British postal workers go back to work after seven weeks on strike.
1972 - A bomb explodes in the cockpit of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport.
1976 - Freddie Prinze born
1977 - James Van Der Beek born
1985 - At least 45 people die and 175 are injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
2001 - Divers raise the wreck of Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird, from the bottom of Coniston Water in Cumbria.

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