Crossroads

March 1st 1973
Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
March 2nd 2010
The widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Agathe Habyarimana, is arrested in France - accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide
March 3rd 2005
Garry Kasparov retires professionally from chess
March 4th 1966
John Lennon, says “We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”
March 5th 1931
Gandhi and British Viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
March 6th 1967
Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
March 7th 1997
5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country’s constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
March 8th 1976
1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
March 9th 1796
Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais
March 10th 1959
Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
March 11th 1935
Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
March 12th 1737
Galileo’s body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
March 13th 1930
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
March 14th 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes President of the Soviet Congress

March 15th  1982

Actress Theresa Saldana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan

March 16th 1962

1st launching of Titan 2 rocket

March 17th 1917

Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

March 18th 1978

Pakistani former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sentenced to death

March 19th 1994

Largest omelette (1,383 ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan

March 20th 1944

Mount Vesuvius, Italy erupts

March 21st 1935

Persia officially renamed Iran

March 22nd 1888

English Football League established

March 23rd 1903

Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

March 24th 1958

Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

March 25th 1975

Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew

March 26th 1973

45th Academy Awards – ‘Godfather’, Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians

March 27th 1790

The shoelace is invented

March 28th 1959

11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet’s government and installs Panchen Lama

March 29th 1849

Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India

March 30th 1932

Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

March 31st 1967

1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)