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On This Day: March 15, 2010
Birthdays: | 1767 | Andrew Jackson, Twice President of the United States | | 1916 | Harry James, Well known American band leader and trumpeter | | 1940 | Frank Dobson, Labour politician | | 1941 | Mike Love, Member of the 'Beach Boys' group | | 1948 | John Duttine, Stage, television and film actor | | 1954 | Isobel Buchanan, Soprano singer | | 1962 | Terence Trent D'Arby, American Pop singer |
Events:| 1887 | The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia | | 1909 | G.S Selfridge, the American tycoon, opened his first store in London | | 1919 | The American Legion was founded | | 1937 | The United States set up its first central blood bank | | 1945 | Record album charts were first published in the United States | | 1964 | Richard Burton was married to Elizabeth Taylor in Montreal | | 1975 | Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate & second husband of Jaqueline Kennedy, died | | 1983 | Rebbecca West, the British novelist, died | | 1983 | A letter bomb sent to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was defused by explosives experts |
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