1973 - Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, sanctioned by the International Track Association.
1973 - Rock band Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon, which will go on to become one of the most influencial and commercially successful albums of all-time.
1998 - Jonesboro massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School. Four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Festoons of flowers and evergreens are otherwise stuck about, and there is a profusion of patches of divers colours on the pork, candles, and other articles on the shelves: These grotesque illuminations draw crowds of strangers and others to witness them; the shops so lighted up doing apparently a little more business than usual.
of March 1544, and was buried in Stoke church.
Like many other manor-houses of the same, or of an earlier period, that of Stoke was invested with considerable interest from its association with persons who were remarkable in their generation, if not of historic fame.