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March 1stToday, the first of March, is St David's Day and to commemorate it here is its history.
1692 The first Salem Witch Trials saw Sarah Good and a female slave convicted of witchcraft and sent to jail. Sarah was later hanged. In the following months 19 others would be executed for witchcraft.
1936 The construction of the Hoover Dam was completed.
1940 English actress Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.
1971 Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain take part in an unofficial day of protest against the government's new industrial relations Bill.
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, began his 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison, County Down.
1994 Fred West was charged with two further murders following the discovery of more human remains in the garden of his Gloucester home.
1998 Titanic becomes the first film to gross $1 billion. James Cameron's epic account of the sinking of the Titanic had a budget of $ 200 million and grossed over $ 2 billion in the end.
2008 Prince Harry who was sent secretly to Afghanistan with his regiment in December at his request is forced to return to Britain following the American website The Drudge Report making his deployment public.
2016 The death of Tony Warren (aged 79) , creator of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV 'soap opera' in production.
And Finally.
1967 Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles started recording a new John Lennon song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. The song was inspired by a drawing his 3 year-old son Julian returned home from school with one day. The picture, which was of a little girl with lots of stars, was his classmate - Lucy O’Donnell, who also lived in Weybridge, and attended the same school as Julian.
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