^B{^#!16!3 March^N! National Day of Morocco. Feast day of St Ailred of Rievaulx, St Cunegund, empress, St Marinus of Caesarea, St Non, St Winwaloe, St Anselm of Nonantola, St Artelais, St Chef, and St Emeterius.
^B{1802^B} Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' published. ^B{1875^B} The first performance of Bizet's opera ^I{Carmen^I} was staged at the OpΘra Comique, Paris. ^B{1931^B} 'The Star-Spangled Banner' was adopted as the US national anthem. ^B{1969^B} US spacecraft ^I{Apollo 9^I} was launched. ^B{1985^B} British miners voted to go back to work after a year of striking over pit closures. ^B{1991^B} Latvia and Estonia voted to secede from the Soviet Union. ^B{1991^B} Iraqi and opposition leaders signed a peace agreement bringing the Gulf War to an end.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}George Pullman, US designer of luxury railroad carriages, ^B{1831^B}; Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor of the telephone, ^B{1847^B}; Jean Harlow, US film actress, ^B{1911^B}; Ronald Searle, English artist and cartoonist, ^B{1920^B}; Miranda Richardson, English actress, ^B{1958^B}; Fatima Whitbread, English javelin champion, ^B{1961^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Robert Hooke, English physicist, ^B{1703^B}; Robert Adam, Scottish architect, ^B{1792^B}; Giandomenico Tiepolo, Italian artist, ^B{1804^B}; Lou Costello, US comedian, ^B{1959^B}; Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born writer and supporter of euthanasia, committed suicide, ^B{1983^B}; Danny Kaye, US comedian, ^B{1987^B}.
