On This Day: 07 Mar

Heroes (London Editions Magazines) #01 (1991)

First Appearances:

Lt. Jake Cassidy in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #233 (10 Mar 1979).
Sgt. Bert Lucas (Bring-'Em-Back-Bert) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #233 (10 Mar 1979).
The Clown in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Editions Ltd.) Prog 774 (14 Mar 1992).
Professor Hilary Tremayne (Tales from Beyond Science) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Editions Ltd.) Prog 774 (14 Mar 1992).

Births:

Kate J. Fricero (1878); Louis Briault (1885); Jon Peaty (1914); Andrzej Krauze (1947)

Deaths:

Gerald A. Facey (1999); Scott Goodall (2016)

Notable Events:

Nothing important happened today.

On This Day: 26 Jan

Births:

Flora Klickmann (1867); Kaye Webb (1914); Oliver Passingham (1925); Jules Feiffer (1929); Michael Turner (1929); Bryan Berry (1930); Murray Ball (1939)

Deaths:

John Byam Liston Shaw (1919); Margaret Constance Belsky (1989); Jon Peaty (1991); Bernard Cookson (2016)

Notable Events:

The Fink Brothers appeared on Central Television in 1985, with predictable results.
Judge Dredd newspaper strip began in Metro (free newspaper) in 2004.
Striker newspaper strip resumed in Nuts magazine in 2010.
The Untitled Project uploaded part of a television pilot, based on LogoRobotComics and Brain Damage, in 2010.
The Sunday Post included a free comic examining The Broons family tree in 2014.