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
Dead man appointed to run Guernsey Airport
- Flight Lieutenant Swoffer had almost been killed in a high-speed plane crash
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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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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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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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