March 14th, 1939: declare a draw on the 10th day their Test Match v SA in Durban

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March 8th 1910: Raymonde de Laroche is the 1st woman to get a pilot's license.

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March 3rd 1939: , begins fasting to protest autocratic rule in

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Feb 28th, 1953: announce to friends their of the double helix

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Feb 27th, 1933: The Reichstag building in Berlin is set on fire, apparently by the Communists

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Feb 26th, 1995: Securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion collapsing Baring's Bank

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Feb 23rd, 1739: Richard Palmer is identified by former schoolteacher, as highwayman Dick Turpin

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Jan 10th 1929 one of the most popular books is first published in Belgium

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October 24th, 1901: Annie Edson Taylor: the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

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August 13th 1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen become the last two men to be hung in Britain.

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August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr

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July 7th 1953: Che Guevara goes on a trip from Bolivia. Which features in Motorcycle Diaries

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