What happened on THIS day in Coventry's history?

23rd Feb 1967 The Yardbirds, featuring Jimmy Page (later to found Led Zeppelin), played at the Locarno.

24th Feb 1963 The Beatles play the Coventry Theatre - but only as support act for Helen Shapiro!

25th Feb 1942 The King and Queen visited Coventry and saw plans for the rebuilding of the city in St. Mary's Hall. The Bishop of Coventry (Dr. Mervyn Haig) presented the Queen with a cross made from nails taken from the old belfry.

26th Feb 1964 The new 'Rose Inn' opens behind where the old one stood in Lockhurst Lane, and Jimmy Hill is there to pull a pint in celebration.

27th Feb 1817 Thomas Lawson, butcher, was killed in his bed by the collapsing of his home in Great Butcher Row. 27th Feb 1847 The birth of Dame Alice Ellen Terry (at 5 Market Street), known professionally as Ellen Terry, who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. Upper Precinct

28th Feb 1322 King Edward II said to be in Coventry with a levy for raising troops. 28th Feb 1932 The Old Wheel Tavern public house closed.

28th Feb 1943 Oxford R6390 of 7 AACU hit trees and a bridge while attempting to force land on the Nuneaton to Coventry road. Polish pilot P/O P Gieplinski and an ATC cadet, William David Troup, aged 15, were both killed. A second ATC cadet was injured.

1st Mar 1976 Margaret Thatcher visits Radford and chats to a local resident. Even though it was three years before she became Prime Minister, no advance warning of her visit was give for security reasons.

2nd Mar 1772 Mary Clues of Gosford Street burnt to death by "spontaneous combustion". Her remains were found on the floor, almost reduced to a cinder, while the furniture and bed-clothes were scarcely damaged. 2nd Mar 1848 The first stone of St. Thomas' church, near the Butts, was laid by the Rev. T. Sheepshanks, Rector of St. John's.

3rd Mar 1967 A crowd of over 18,000 saw Coventry City take on West Ham United at Highfield Road for the "Winston S. Churchill Memorial Trophy". The game finished 3-3 and Hammers, who included Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst in their XI, won 9-7 on penalties. Team: Glazier (Clamp), Bruck (Tudor), Hill, Farmer, Curtis, Lewis, Rees, Machin, Gould, Gibson, Clements Scorers: Gibson, Machin (2)

3rd Mar 2000 The Queen and Prince Philip visit Coventry for the Home Front Commemoration Service in the cathedral ruins.

4th Mar 1961 Coventry Godiva Harriers' Basil Heatley won the English National Cross Country title at the home of cross country running in this country, Parliament Hill Fields, London. As a result he was selected for the International Championships two weeks later held in Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France which he duly won. The week before Bas won his national title, Roma Ashby had won the English Women's National Cross Country Championships held in Sheffield. Unfortunately the Women's International was not held that year, although Roma had won the international title in 1956. No other club has had any comparable performance by two of its members.

4th Mar 1542 The Hospital of St. John (now known as The Old Grammar School) was surrendered as part of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. 4th Mar 1852 A new one mile course built for 'Stoke Races' on the land now occupied by the Stoke Park housing estate.

5th Mar 1471 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, left Coventry and marched south with an army of 30,000 to clash with Edward IV, where he would be killed in the Battle of Barnet on the 14th April. 5th Mar 1832 Well Street Infant School opened.

5th Mar 1941 A Tiger Moth of 9 EFTS was landing at Ansty when it collided with another Tiger Moth on the ground. Both were burnt out, but there were no casualties.