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 issues banknotes featuring famous locals
- Guernsey's 1980 banknotes featured famous local men – but no women other than the queen.
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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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Guernsey heads call for an end to the Eleven-plus
- The controversial exam had long been used to stream students by ability as they entered secondary education.
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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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