1912

March 17th: Captain Lawrence Oates left his grand Georgian home, Gestingthorpe Hall, near Halstead in Essex to set sail with Captain Scott on his ill-fated bid to be first to the South Pole. Less than two years later Oates uttered his famous last words: ‘I am just going outside and may be some time’. With that he stepped into an Antarctic blizzard. He sacrificed himself in a doomed attempt to save Scott and two other companions, believing he was slowing them down as they desperately tried to reach safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Wc461EVkE

1976

March 16th: Harold Wilson, Labour leader for 13 years and prime minister for almost eight, has stunned the political world by announcing his resignation.

Mr Wilson, who turned 60 five days ago, made his bombshell announcement to his Cabinet this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgbWpcdEBB0

1976

March 15th: The driver of a London Underground train has been shot dead while chasing a gunman who is believed to have detonated a bomb on his train.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPS0eoY5w04

1964

March 14th: Jack Ruby has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F Kennedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPoWpH4K4o

1977

March 13th: “Seeing him bowl at the MCG, listening to people bang on the advertising hoardings, and chanting Lill-eeee Lill-eeee was just amazing. It was moving, the way the supporters and his teammates responded to him”

Chappell's quote above could apply to most of the matches Lillee played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but he is in fact talking about the 1977 Centenary Test, a match played to celebrate 100 years since the first Test was played, between Australia and England at the same venue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLABsvNct9o