2nd March

1717 - The first ballet, The Loves Of Mars and Venus', is performed at the Theatre Royal in London.

1882 - An attempt is made to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor.

1994 - Torvill and Dean announce that they are to retire from competitive skating.

2000 - The Guinness Book of Records nams Eva Morris of Newcastle-under-Lyme as the world's oldest woman, at the age of 114. She was born on 18th November 1885.

2003 - Rapper Dizzee Rascal is arrested for carrying pepper spray.

2005 - A Muslim teenager wins a landmark ruling saying she had been unlawfully excluded from her school for wearing traditional religious dress. Shabina Begum had been expelled from Denbigh High School in Luton for wearing a jilbab to lessons.