Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965–75), and its...
Thomas Michael Bond, OBE ( 13 January 1926-27 June 2017) is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books.
It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, an insurance broker and patron of the arts, in 1824. Parliament had agreed £57000 expenditure for the purchase of...
It was opened on the 21st March 1896 by cinema pioneer Birt Acres at 2 Piccadilly Mansions, located at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Piccadilly Circus. It was called the
Julien Macdonald OBE (born 19 March 1971) is a Welsh fashion designer who has appeared as judge on the television programme, Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales, attending...
Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 31 May 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer(lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was ordered by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich tomanage the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe....
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 29, 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. Death. On the evening of September 29, 1913, Diesel boarded the post office...
Amoco Cadiz was a large crude oil carrier sailing under the Liberian flag of convenience. It ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3 miles) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and split in
The US Congress formally authorized the establishment and funding of the United States Military Academy on 16 March 1802. The academy graduated Joseph Gardner Swift, its first official graduate, in October 1802 and he later returned as
H.P. Baxxter (born Hans Peter Geerdes, 16 March 1966) is a German musician and the frontman of the techno group Scooter. He founded Scooter with his friend Rick J. Jordan in 1993. In 1985, Baxxter founded the band Celebrate the Nun, with Rick and his...
Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor and author who has appeared in over 115 films. He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number...
