23rd March
1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England died.
1895 – The first official match played by women took place at Crouch End in London.
(Nettie Honeyball had placed an advert in the press and persuaded about 30 young women to join the British Ladies Football Club. It wasn’t a resounding success, but during the First World War it became more popular. Unfortunately women’s football in England and Scotland suffered a blow in 1921 when the Football Association, in England, banned women from playing the game on Association members’ pitches.)
1975 – The beaver became the official symbol of Canada.