Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us.
To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay the same it is fascinating to note what made the news this week, starting 30th March.
1966 Labour Party has a great victory in the General Election and is voted in for a second term
1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis
1981 Ronald Reagan is shot by a lone gunman in Washington support from the Liberals
1982 Argentina invades the Falklands their flag is raised over Government House
1999 The minimum wage is introduced for the first time in Britain
2002 The Queen Mother dies in her sleep aged 101
This week’s Birthdays
30th Musician Eric Clapton is 70 and Piers Morgan is 50
31st Actor Richard Chamberlain is 81
1st Singer Susan Boyle is 54
3rd Actress Doris Day is 91 and politician Nigel Farage is 51
4th TV presenter Graham Norton is 52
5th Singer Agnetha Faltskog is 65
