23 MARCH 1956, Page 6

ANNIVERSARIES INTELLIGENCE

Two THOUSAND years ago today, by modern reckoning, Caius Julius Caesar was murdered. Daily Telegraph, March 15.

. . . There was between 1 tic and AD 1 no year 0, so that this is in fact the 1,999th anniversary of that notable event.

Manchester Guardian, March 15.

A BRONZE and granite monument to the memory of Karl Marx was unveiled on his grave in Highgate Cemetery, London, yesterday, the 72nd anniversary of his death. Daily Telegraph, March 15.

PRECISELY 73 years after his death on March 14, 1883, a monument to Karl Marx was unveiled yesterday above his grave in Highgate Cemetery. Manchester Guardian, March 15.