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March 15Feast day of St Longinus, St Louise de Marillac, St Zacharias, pope, St Lucretia, St Matrona, and St Clement Mary Hofbauer.
Events1892: US inventor Jesse Reno patented the first escalator.1909: US entrepreneur G S Selfridge opened Britain's first department store in Oxford Street, London. 1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated. 1933: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich in Germany; he also banned left-wing newspapers and kosher food. 1949: Clothes rationing in Britain ended. 1964: Actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married in Montreal. 1990: Gorbachev was sworn in as the first executive president of the USSR. 1997: Rebels in Zaire captured Kisangani. 1997: A report from the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) revealed that all stages of food handling in Britain, from the abattoir to the plate, were to some degree suspect. Births1767: Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the USA1779: William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, British prime minister 1813: John Snow, English physician who pioneered the use of ether as an anaesthetic 1854: Emil von Behring, German bacteriologist 1941: Mike Love, US pop singer, member of the Beach Boys 1947: Ry Cooder, US guitarist 1963 the wonderful CAP was born ! (I hope I got the year right !)
Deaths44 BC: Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, assassinated1898: Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist who invented the Bessemer converter 1975: Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon 1983: Rebecca West, English novelist 1984: Tommy Cooper, English comedian 1990: Farzad Barzoft, Iranian-born journalist working for the Observer, hanged as a spy in Iraq 1994: Mai Zetterling, Swedish actor and director 1998: Benjamin McLane Spock, US paediatrician
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