^B{^#!16!18 March^N! Feast day of St Cyril of Jerusalem, St Alexander of Jerusalem, St Christian, St Edward the Martyr, St Finan of Aberdeen, St Anselm of Lucca, St Frigidian, and St Salvator of Horta.
^B{1662^B} The first public bus service began operating, in Paris. ^B{1834^B} Six farm laborers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, were sentenced to transportation to Australia for forming a labor union. ^B{1891^B} The London-Paris telephone link came into operation. ^B{1922^B} Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was jailed for six years for sedition. ^B{1931^B} The first electric razors were manufactured in the US. ^B{1965^B} Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov made the first 'walk' in space.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, ^B{1844^B}; Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the engine named for him, ^B{1858^B}; Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister who tried unsuccessfully to make peace with Hitler, ^B{1869^B}; Lavrenti Beria, Soviet chief of secret police, ^B{1889^B}; Wilfrid Owen, English World War I poet, ^B{1893^B}; Robert Donat, English film actor, ^B{1905^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Edward the Martyr, king of England, murdered at Corfe Castle, ^B{978^B}; Fra Angelico, Italian monk and painter, ^B{1455^B}; Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' ^B{1584^B}; Robert Walpole, first prime minister of Britain, ^B{1745^B}; Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, ^B{1768^B}; Percy Thrower, English gardener and broadcaster, ^B{1988^B}.
