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 and France tackle the Amoco Cadiz oil spill
- When Amoco Cadiz spilled almost 220,000 tons of oil, the resulting slick stretched more than 40 miles.
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Guernsey exchange student goes missing in Virginia
- Geography exchange student Jonny Dorey went missing from campus in Richmond, Virginia.
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Birth of Baron James de Saumarez
- Guernsey-born Baron James de Saumarez fought in many of the Royal Navy's biggest sea battles.
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First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea
- Victor Hugo's maritime adventure novel was written in and set on Guernsey.
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