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March 22, 2020 - March 28, 2020 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the first motion pictures using celluloid film, the Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, the African-American actors Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, the Schengen Treaty, King Richard III of England, Vladimir Putin of Russia and the marriage of screen stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

March 22, 1895: Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film. A film of workers leaving a factory in Paris was shown to invited guests

March 23, 1910: Akira Kurosawa, influential Japanese film director, was born. His best known films include Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and his final work, Ran

March 24, 2002: For the first and, to date, only time in the history of the Oscars, two African-American actors, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, scooped the top acting awards

March 25, 1995: The Schengen Treaty, to abolish border checks between European Union states, came into force. The zone now covers 26 countries and more than 400 million people

March 26, 2015: King Richard III of England, whose remains were found buried under a car park in 2012, was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral over 500 years after his death

March 27, 2000: Vladimir Putin continued his stunning rise to prominence by securing a full term as Russia’s head of state, winning a decisive presidential election victory

March 28, 1920: Silent screen stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks got married after both divorced their former spouses, a potentially career-ending move at the time

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PUBLISHED: 19/03/2020; DESIGN: Phil Bainbridge; PICTURE RESEARCH: Julie Mullins; EVENT SELECTION: Fiona Roberts and Susan Shepherd; PROOFING: Julie Mullins; TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION: Fiona Roberts;STORY: Julie Mullins; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
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