March
01 March 1812
Birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, the designer of the Houses of Parliament. 200 years.
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18 March 1962
End of French-Algerian War, 1962. 50 years.
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19 March 1932
Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. 80 years.
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23 March 1887
Birth of Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian nobleman and mining heir, best known for killing Rasputin. 125 years.
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23 March 1887
Birth of Juan Gris, a leading figure in the synthetic Cubist movement. 125 years.
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24 March 1887
Birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. 125 years.
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28 March 1862
Death of Aristide Briand, served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. 150 years.
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29 March 1912
Death of Robert Falcon Scott - Scott of the Antarctic - in Antarctica in 1912. 100 years.
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31 March 1885
Death of John Constable, English Romantic painter, known principally for his landscape paintings of British countryside. 175 years.
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