On 7th March 1695, Sir John Trevor from the Brynkinalt estate near Chirk in Denbighshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, was expelled for taking a bribe of 1000 guineas (£1.6 million in 2009). He remained the only Speaker to be forced out of office until Michael Martin resigned in 2009.
Interestingly, Trevor was severely cross-eyed, which caused confusion as to which MP had 'caught the Speaker's eye' and led to many of them speaking out of turn.
On 7 March 1744, the world's first golf club was founded in Edinburgh.
1876The Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf; factors that profoundly influenced Bell's life's work. Ironically, Bell considered the telephone an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and he refused to have a telephone in his study.
1900A fire at Buckingham Palace destroyed part of its roof.
1926The first transatlantic telephone call was made, from London to New York.
In 1929, the United Kingdom held a general election that would have a significant impact on the political landscape. On March 7th, the results of the election were announced.The Labour Party, led by Ramsay MacDonald, won the election and formed a minority government.
1968The first news programme in colour was broadcast on BBC2.
On March 5, 1990, the Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies repealed the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.
1965 – The Mannish Boys (featuring young David Bowie ) released their first single on this day March 5 which is a rendition of Bobby Bland‘s song ‘I Pity the Fool’.
1987: The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released in the United States on Compact disc. But only only in mono as Capitol Records decided to release the original UK mixes. It would not be until 2009 before the stereo mixes would be released on CD.
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