NaTCH Engineering's March On This Day in History

Mar1	Saint David's Day - the patron saint of Wales
Mar2	1978	Vladimir Remek, a Czechoslovakian, became the first person in space who was not an American or Russian citizen
	1970	Southern Rhodesia declared itself a republic
Mar3	1999	Dusty Springfield died
	1861	Serfdom was abolished in Russia
Mar4	1877	Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake was first performed
Mar5	1936	The Spitfire made its maiden flight
	1827	Alessandro Volta, after whom the volt is named, died
Mar6	1902	An army order gave British soldiers the right to wear spectacles on or off duty
	1836	After 12 days the Siege of the Alamo ended
Mar7	1999	Stanley Kubrick died
	1969	The London Underground's Victoria Line opened
	1963	Round the Horne was first broadcast