* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

Despite the fact that this was a fairly transparent hoax, McGonagall would refer to himself as " Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah " in his advertising for the rest of his life.

** William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet

* William Topaz McGonagall

For example, the poetry of William Topaz McGonagall is also remembered with affection by many despite its seeming technical flaws, as in his ode on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

* William Topaz McGonagall

* William Topaz McGonagall

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William Topaz McGonagall produces his epic poem The Tay Bridge Disaster to commemorate the event.

McGonigle shares his name with William Topaz McGonagall, considerably the worst poet ever.

* The Bard of the Silv ' ry Tay is William Topaz McGonagall

* William McGonagall: The Truth at Last ( 1976 ) ( with Jack Hobbs )

* William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin: A Scottish Fantasy ( 1988 ) ( with Jack Hobbs )

* William McGonagall: Freefall ( 1992 ) ( with Jack Hobbs )

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: William McGonagall, the Poor Poet,

: William McGonagall

* McGonagall on the Relief of Mafeking – William McGonagall's poem and a brief history of the siege.

* The Tay Bridge Disaster, a poem written by Scottish poet William McGonagall

The event was commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet.

" The Tay Bridge Disaster " is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet, William McGonagall, who has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history.

William McGonagall wrote two other poems in praise of the Tay Bridge.

Crieff was immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem " Crieff "

Among the warriors of each clan is a gonnagle ; a bard or war-poet, whose job is to create terrible poetry that is recited during battles to demoralise the enemy, ( see William McGonagall.

* William McGonagall, a Scottish poet

* William McGonagall, a Scottish poet often known by this name

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

In March 1067, William took Ealdred with him when William returned to Normandy, along with the other English leaders Earl Edwin of Mercia, Earl Morcar, Edgar the Ætheling, and Archbishop Stigand.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

* 1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his " March to the Sea ".

In March 1825, John Allan's uncle and business benefactor William Galt, said to be one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, died and left Allan several acres of real estate.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.

* 99 Fables ( 1960 ) by William March

* William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1679 – 30 March 1746 )

On March 26, 1895, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay isolated helium on Earth by treating the mineral cleveite ( a variety of uraninite with at least 10 % rare earth elements ) with mineral acids.

A March 1906 Scientific American article by American hydrofoil pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils.

Prince William arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of Durrës on 7 March 1914 along with the Royal family.

On March 4, 1887, William Randolph Hearst became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and transformed the sedate Examiner into " The Monarch of the Dailies.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

* William Hayward Pickering, October 1, 1954 – March 31, 1976

An article in The New York Times ( March 8, 1953: E9 ), titled " Looking Back Two Billion Years " describes the work of Wollman ( William ) M. MacNevin at The Ohio State University, before the Miller Science paper was published in May 1953.

An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.