March 31st – On This Day
1972 - The CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) organises a four day demonstration against nuclear arms including a march to Aldermaston.
March 30th – On This Day
2002 - Queen Elizabeth, later known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, died peacefeully in her sleep aged 101. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was the daughter of the future Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was descended from the Royal House of Scotland and married the Duke of York, second son of King George V, in 1923.
March 29th – On This Day
1848 - Niagara Falls waterfall stopped flowing due to an ice jam in Lake Erie. The flow stopped for 30 to 40 hours, and it’s the only time it’s recorded to have happened.
March 28th – On This Day
1917 - The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded. They were Britain’s first official service women. It was the first time women had served in the British Army other than as nurses. The corps was eventually disbanded in 1921.
March 27th – On This Day
1966 - The stolen Jules Rimet Trophy (the original World Cup trophy) was found by a dog named Pickles in South London, wrapped in newspaper, after being stolen from an exhibition.
March 26th – On This Day
2015 - Richard III (1452 – 1485), the only English monarch without a marked grave, was reinterred at Leicester Cathedral after much wrangling, including High Court action over his final resting place.
March 25th – On This Day
1969 - John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono staged their ‘Beds in Peace’ at the Amsterdam Hilton. It lasted until 31st March and each day they invited the world's press into their hotel room, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
March 24th – On This Day
1989 - The oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of oil. The ecologically sensitive location, season of the year, and large scale of this spill resulted in one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history.
March 23rd – On This Day
1956 - Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone of the new Coventry cathedral. The new building was built next to the remains of the 14th-century cathedral that had been destroyed in the 2nd World War.