1773,	William (Henry) Harrison, ninth US president. He was elected in 1840 and at the inaugural ceremony on 4 March 1841 he addressed the assembly in a cold drizzle, without a hat or coat. He contracted pneumonia and died a month later.
1773,	William Henry Harrison, 9th President served only from March 4 - April 4, 1841.
1854,	Edward Carson, Anglo-Irish politician and barrister born in Dublin, who made his reputation cross-examining Oscar Wilde in 1895. As an MP, he organised opposition to Home Rule for Ireland with some 80,000 Ulster Volunteers.
1914,	Carmen Miranda, (you have the right to remain silent...)
1914,	Ernest Tubb, singer.
1926,	Dr Garret Fitzgerald, Irish Prime Minister who sought to reduce tensions between the republic and Northern Ireland.
1928,	Roger Mudd
1946,	Mia Farrow, actress.

      Events On This Day In History...

1540,	The first recorded race meeting in England was held at Roodee Fields, Chester.
1649,	The funeral of King Charles I took place. He was buried at Windsor.
1801,	The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the signing of the Peace of Luneville between France and Austria.
1830,	Explorer Charles Sturt discovered the termination of the Murray, Australia’s longest river.
1849,	Rome was proclaimed a republic by Giuseppe Mazzini.
1865,	General Robert Lee took command of the Confederate Armies in the US Civil War.
1877,	U.S. Weather Service is founded, (and they still can't predict the weather).
1885,	First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
1891,	First shipment of asparagus arrives from Sacramento.
1895,	Volleyball is invented by W.G. Morgan in Massachusetts.
1923,	The Russian state airline, known as Aeroflot, was formed.
1933,	The famous Oxford Union Society debate on the proposal ‘That this House will in no way fight for King and Country’ was held.
1942,	Fire gutted the French liner, Normandie.
1949,	Robert Mitchum was jailed in Los Angeles for two months for smoking marijuana.
1964,	G.I. Joe doll is introduced.
1969,	The Boeing 747 takes its first commercial flight.
1972,	Britain and East Germany established diplomatic relations.
1972,	The British government, led by Prime Minister Heath, declared a state of emergency as a result of the miners’ strike, then in its third month.
1981,	General Wojciech Jaruzelski took over as Poland’s Prime Minister to try and squash the ‘Solidarity’ movement.
1986,	Halley’s Comet made its expected return but poor weather conditions reduced opportunities to see it with the naked eye.
1988,	For three months, the walls of a house in southern France echoed to an average 100 bangs from 10 pm until midnight and became a major tourist attraction. Police, geologists and Professor Yves Lignon, head of France’s only paranormal research team, were unable to trace the source, although Professor Lignon felt the noise was probably provoked by tension within the family.
1989,	Polish archaeologists claimed to have unearthed the world’s oldest boomerang thought to be 23,000 years old.

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