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
Isle of Guernsey delivered to its new owners
- The paddle steamer, which served Guernsey and Southampton, later served as a hospital ship during the Second World War.
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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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Guernsey’s entire police force is arrested
- Every police officer on the island was arrested in an inquiry into theft
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Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born
- Known as the Father of the Playing Card, this printer set up a business that's still thriving.
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