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1 March 1954
150-megaton thermonuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.
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2 March 1964
Cassius Clay with Malcolm X in Harlem, New York.
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3 March 2001
The slaughter of livestock to stop the spread of foot and mouth disease in Britain.
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4 March 1949
Female lamp workers clocking on at the Duralite factory in Spennymoor, Durham, England.
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5 March 1770
The massacre of Boston during the American War of Independence.
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6 March 2000
The Second Moscow Open Sumo Championship.
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7 March 1987
Townsend Thoresen's Herald of Free Enterprise car ferry on its side after the vessel capsized near entrance to Zeebrugge Harbour, Belgium.
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8 March 1968
Cilla Black and Cliff Richard choosing a song for Cliff to sing at the Eurovision Song Contest at the Albert Hall.
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9 March 1946
33 die during the FA Cup tie at Bolton when a wall supporting fans collapses at Burden Park.
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10 March 1981
Bob Marley in concert.
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11 March 1917
Jubilant crowd welcomes the entry of the British forces into Baghdad, Iraq during World War I.
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12 March 1969
Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office, London.
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13 March 1904
Japanese spies being hanged by Russian military command during the Russo-Japanese War.
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14 March 1613
Election of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov as Tsar of Russia by G. Ugryumov.
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15 March 1921
Women demonstrate in protest to the execution of six young Sinn Fein members. Dublin, Ireland.
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16 March 1917
The Amiens St Quentin Road. Part of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.
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17 March 1973
Lt Col Robert Stirm is greeted by his daughter, Lori and the rest of his family as his Vietnam War is finally over.
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18 March 1965
Alexei Leonov makes the first ever space walk.
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19 March 1968
An over enthusiastic Briton displays a Union Jack carrier-bag whilst he waits to see Roy Jenkins on Budget Day outside number 11 Downing street. London.
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20 March 1954
Roy Rogers and Trigger top the bill at a combined rally for children and the evangalist Billy Graham. Harringay.
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21 March 1954
Nat King Cole smokes a Bristol Glass pipe at the Savoy Hotel. London.
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22 March 2003
The front line of anti-Iraq-war demonstrators march passed the Houses of Parliament. London.
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23 March 1960
Joseph Brigden, 75 gives the yearly trim to a giant yew tree hedge which runs down the side of a garden at Manor House, Betsham, Kent.
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24 March 1958
Elvis Presley is sworn into the US army at the US army Induction Centre. Memphis, Tennessee.
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25 March 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their week long demonstration for peace at the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam.
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26 March 1949
Morning Star II takes Beacher's Brook riderless on the second time round the Grand National course, Aintree, Liverpool.
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27 March 1956
President Eisenhower plays out of the bunker at Greenbriar Golf Course, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
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28 March 1967
Champion Cassius Clay stands over challenger
Zora Folley during the World Title Clash in Madison Square Garden, New York.
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29 March 1967
'The Redoubtable' the first French nuclear submarine, during the launch. Cherbourg (Manche).
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30 March 1939
Civil Defence poster in Trafalgar Square.
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31 March 1990
A protestor kicks the window of a fast food store in Lower Regent Street, London during anti-poll tax demonstration riots.
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