6th March 1960
Guernsey players set darts record
A team of eight Guernsey darts players set a new world record for scoring 1,000,001 in a game lasting 23 hours and two minutes. They beat the previous record by four hours and 48 minutes. That landmark score had been set by a team from Bristol University just a week before.
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Other events that occured in March
Guernsey Post Office is established
- Guernsey Post Office was established in 1794, but didn't get its first post box for another 60 years.
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Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George
- Soldiers at Fort George staged a mutiny against their commanding officers in 1783.
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Guernsey’s island-wide police force is established
- Guernsey's island-wide police force took over from a system of local parish constables.
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Guernsey guidebook pioneer Henry Inglis dies
- Travel writer Henry Inglis wrote one of the first guidebooks to the Channel Islands.
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