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On This Day: 20th of March
On this day in 1941:
Air Raids and Exams
A committee on the procedures to be followed in the event of an air raid warning during degree examinations reported to Senate. Among its recommendations were "that an examination should not begin if at the hour of the examination an Alert is in operation. It should begin as soon as possible after the sounding of the Raiders Passed."
Births and Deaths
On this day in 1925
George Nathaniel Curzon Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died.
On this day in 1969
Honoria Somerville Keer died.
On this day in 2008
Ian McIntyre died.
On this day in 1720
Alexander Ross died.
On this day in 1990
Austin Gill died.
On this day in 1859
John Alexander Campbell was born.
On this day in 1860
David Frame was born.
On this day in 1875
William King Gillies was born.
On this day in 1855
Joseph Horne was born.
On this day in 1874
William Henry Low was born.
On this day in 1874
Charles Edward Cortis Stanford was born.
On this day in 1863
James Greensill Skottowe Syme was born.
On this day in 1863
Charles Dunbar Temple was born.
On this day in 1877
John Lean Wark was born.
On this day in 1957
Kate Fraser died.
On this day in 1876
Auguste Boyes was born.
On this day in 1886
Rutherford Cramb was born.
On this day in 1971
Eric John Dyke died.
On this day in 1879
Margaret Mary Hardy was born.
On this day in 1885
Thomas Hyslop was born.
On this day in 1882
Elsie Fraser Macdonald was born.
On this day in 1886
Kate Laura McGown was born.
On this day in 1867
Karen Margrethe Myhre was born.
On this day in 1882
Jenny Torrance Robertson was born.
On this day in 1889
James Smith was born.
On this day in 1888
Wenjiang Ding was born.
On this day in 1889
Janet Morrison Stephen was born.
On this day in 1893
Mabel Violet Cowan Hogg was born.
On this day in 1892
David McLeod was born.
On this day in 1895
George Douglas Chew was born.
On this day in 1889
Behari Lal Chopra was born.
On this day in 1894
James Steven Barker was born.
On this day in 1890
Thomas Kennedy Johnstone was born.
On this day in 1893
Nancy Stewart Clark was born.
On this day in 1896
Agnes Brownlie McLachlan was born.