On this day
9:35am Monday 15th March 2010 in News
1909: “The world’s most beautiful store” opened in London’s Oxford Street. It was named after its owner, Gordon Selfridge.
1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated. 1932: The New BBC Dance Orchestra made its radio debut under the direction of Henry Hall.
1933: Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich, which he said would endure for a thousand years. 1937: America’s first central blood bank was set up.
1956: My Fair Lady opened on Broadway starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. The title was adapted from the Cockney pronunciation of “Mayfair”.
1968: Foreign Secretary George Brown quit as he accused Prime Minister Harold Wilson of running the Cabinet in a dictatorial fashion.
1974: A federal grand jury concluded that President Nixon was involved in a conspiracy to cover up White House involvement in the burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters in 1972.
1984: Only 21 of Britain’s 174 coal mines were working as strikes against the pits closure programme were declared official.
