^B{^#!16!23 March^N! National Day of Pakistan. Feast day of St Gwinear, St Turibius, St Benedict the Hermit, St Victorian, St Ethelwald the Hermit, and St Joseph Oriol.
^B{1765^B} The British parliament passed the Stamp Act, imposing a tax on all publications and official documents in America. ^B{1861^B} In Britain, London's first streetcars began operating, in Bayswater. ^B{1891^B} Goal nets, invented by Liverpudlian J A Brodie, were used for the first time in an FA Cup Final. ^B{1919^B} The Italian Fascist Party was formed by Benito Mussolini. ^B{1925^B} Authorities in the state of Tennessee, US, forbade the teaching of Darwinian theory in schools. ^B{1956^B} Pakistan was declared an Islamic republic within the Commonwealth. ^B{1983^B} US president Ronald Reagan urged support for a revolutionary defence system, so-called Star Wars, to protect the US from Soviet attack.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Juan Gris, Spanish painter, ^B{1887^B}; Joan Crawford, US film actress, ^B{1904^B}; Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director, ^B{1910^B}; Wernher von Braun, German-born US rocket engineer, ^B{1912^B}; Jimmy Edwards, English comedian, ^B{1920^B}; Roger Bannister, English neurologist who, as a student, was the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3 min 59.4 sec), ^B{1929^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Stendhal, French novelist, ^B{1842^B}; Steve Donoghue, English jockey, ^B{1945^B}; Raoul Dufy, French painter, ^B{1953^B}; Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born US film actor, ^B{1964^B}; Claude Auchinleck, British Field Marshal, ^B{1981^B}; Mike Hailwood, English champion motor cyclist, ^B{1981^B}.
