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.

On This Day - 18th March

1837 - Grover Cleveland born
1886 - Edward Everett Horton born
1926 - Peter Graves born
1927 - George Plimpton born
1932 - John Updike born and Sydney Harbour bridge opens
1936 - F.W. deKlerk born
1938 - Charlie Pride born
1941 - Wilson Pickett born
1950 - The Belgian government collapses over a referendum on the return from exile of King Leopold III. Also Brad Dourif born
1959 - Irene Cara born
1963 - Vanessa Williams born
1964 - Bonnie Blair born

1967 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon has run aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, leaking oil into the sea.
1970 - Queen Latifah born
1974 - Two Israeli soldiers are killed and three others injured along the Golan Heights.
1977 - Devin Lima born
1979 - Three die and eight are seriously injured in an explosion at the Golborne colliery in Lancashire.
1982 - Charges of gross indecency brought by Mary Whitehouse against a National Theatre director end today after intervention by the Attorney-General.
1992 - White South Africans back an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid.

On This Day - 17th March

1895 - Shemp Howard born
1902 - Bobby Jones born
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge born
1919 - Nat King Cole born
1921 - The first birth control clinic is opened in Britain by Marie Stopes
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev born
1941 - Paul Kantner born
1944 - John Sebastian born
1949 - Patrick Duffy born
1951 - Kurt Russell born
1955 - Gary Sinise born
1957 - British European Airways withdraws 25 Viscount 701s in the wake of the fatal Manchester aircrash.
1960 - Arye Gross born
1964 - Rob Lowe born
1968 - More than 200 people are arrested after thousands clash in an anti-Vietnam war protest outside the United States embassy in London.
1972 - Mia Hamm born
1973 - Caroline Corr born
1978 - Thousands of Palestinian civilians flee a third day of Israeli attacks.
1984 - The 130th Boat Race is postponed less than an hour before it is due to start after the Cambridge vessel is involved in a collision.

1995 - Notorious gangland killer Ronnie Kray dies in hospital two days after he collapses in his ward at Broadmoor.
2001 - The £86m Eden Project attracted 7,000 visitors to its official opening, despite a protest by farmers who said it should not have opened because of the foot-and-mouth crisis.

On This Day - 16th March

1751 - 4th president of the U.S.A James Maddison is born. During his presidency he declared war on Britain in 1812 and got the Whitehouse burnt down for his troubles.
1906 - Henny Youngman born
1912 - Pat Nixon born
1917 - Czar Nicholes II or Russia abdicates
1926 - Jerry Lewis born
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci born
1949 - Erik Estrada born
1953 - Marshal Josef Tito of Yugoslavia has arrived in Britain, the first Communist head of state to visit the country.
1963 - Kevin Tod Smith born

1976 - Harold Wilson, Labour leader for 13 years and Prime Minister for almost eight, announces his resignation to a shocked nation.
1978 - Former Italian premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped at gunpoint in Rome by a gang believed to be from the Red Brigade.
1988 - In the region of 5000 people, mainly women and children, are killed and up to 10,000 were injured when Saddam Hussain ordered a poison gas attack on a Kurdish town in Northern Iraq.
1988 - A gunman at the Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast kills three mourners and injures at least 50 people attending a funeral for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.

2001 - An 18-year-old woman, Claire Marsh is convicted of rape after she pinned down a victim during a horrific gang sex attack.

On This Day - 15th March

1767 - 7th US President Andrew Jackson born
1912 - Samuel "Lightnin'" Hopkins born
1913 - Macdonald Carey born
1916 - Harry James born
1935 - Judd Hirsch born
1940 - Phil Lesh born
1944 - Sly Stone born
1961 - Fabio born
1962- The Liberals get their first by-election victory for four years, seizing Orpington from the government.
1972 - Mark Hoppus born
1974 - Architect John Poulson has been jailed for five years for bribing public figures to win contracts.
1976 - The driver of a London Underground train is shot dead as he chases a gunman after a bomb exploded on his train.

1977 - Joe Hahn born
1981 - The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks have been released in Syria.
1983 - Sean Biggerstaff born
1990 - Iraqi authorities execute The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad bringing strong condemnation from Britain.
2011 - Japan's fears of a nuclear meltdown are rising after a third explosion and fire at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have led to radiation leaking from the facility. People living less than 20km from the complex, which is 250km (155 miles) north of Tokyo, have been told to leave the area. Japan is later hit by a further aftershock of magnitude 6.4.

2011 - British reggae star DJ Smiley Culture dies during a police drugs raid on his home in Surrey.

On This Day - 14th March

1879 - Albert Einstein born
1883 - Karl Marx dies
1912 - Les Brown born
1920 - Hank Ketcham born
1928 - Frank Borman born
1933 - Quincy Jones and Michael Caine born
1947 - Billy Crystal born
1958 - A celebratory 101-gun salute has been fired in Monaco after Princess Grace - formerly film star Grace Kelly gives birth to a son, Prince Albert.

1960 - The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank sets a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles.
1961 - Kirby Puckett born

1964 - Jack Ruby has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1983 - Taylor Hanson born
1984 - Gunmen shoot and injure the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, in an attack in central Belfast.
1991 - The Birmingham Six walk free from jail after their convictions for the murder of 21 people in two pubs are quashed by the Court of Appeal.

2011 - A second hydrogen explosion has rocked an earthquake-striken nuclear plant in Japan. The government says the core container of the No.3 reactor at Fukushima remains intact at this time.

On This Day - 13th March

1855 - Percival Lowell born
1881 - Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard born
1913 - William Casey born
1939 - Neil Sedaka born
1950 - William H. Macy born
1956 - Dana Delany born
1960 - Adam Clayton born
1961 - Three men and two women go on trial at the Old Bailey charged with plotting to pass secrets to the Russians.
1964 - Will Clark born
1967 - Hundreds of students at the London School of Economics are staging a sit-in over disciplinary action taken against two union officials.
1970 - Tom King trebles the Tory majority in the first by-election in which 18-year-olds can vote.
1979 - A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy.

1983 - The embattled leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, Joshua Nkomo, has flown into London as his country appears to be teetering on the brink of civil war.
1984 - Rachael Bella born
1996 - A lone gunman goes on a shooting spree at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and their teacher.