On This Day: March 29, 2024
Birthdays
1790 John Tyler, Former American President1902 Sir William Walton, English composer
1931 Lord (Norman) Tebbit, Tory politician and TV presenter
1943 John Major, Conservative Prime Minister
1943 Julie Goodyear, Cornation Streets 'Bet Lynch'
1944 Vangelis, Greek musician
1944 John Suchet, Television journalist
1949 Michael Brecker, Of the group 'The Brecker Brothers'
Events
1871 Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London1940 Bank of England Pound notes were issued containing metal strips as an anti forgery device
1974 The American spacecraft Mariner 10 took close-up photographs of Mercury
1981 The first ever London marathon was held; won by an American, Dick Beardsley
1982 The film 'Chariots of Fire' won an 'Oscar' for best film
1988 Plans were announced, for the construction of Europe's tallest 'skyscraper', on Canary Wharf, London
1992 Earl Spencer, the father of the Princess of Wales, died