Today in . .
Today, March 15 . . .
Some Birthdays:
| 1767 | Andrew Jackson, Twice President of the United States |
| 1916 | Harry James, Well known American band leader and trumpeter |
| 1940 | Frank Dobson, Labour politician |
| 1941 | Mike Love, Member of the 'Beach Boys' group |
| 1948 | John Duttine, Stage, television and film actor |
| 1954 | Isobel Buchanan, Soprano singer |
| 1962 | Terence Trent D'Arby, American Pop singer |
Some Global Events:
| 1887 | The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia |
| 1909 | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London |
| 1919 | The American Legion was founded |
| 1937 | The United States set up its first central blood bank |
| 1945 | Record album charts were first published in the United States |
| 1964 | Richard Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor in Montreal |
| 1975 | Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate & second husband of Jaqueline Kennedy, died |
| 1983 | Rebbecca West, the British novelist, died |
| 1983 | A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts |