Historical Events In March - 18

1899  On March - 18 douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76   

1900  On this day in history ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms   

1900  On March - 18 antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32   

1901  On this day in history piotr Perkowski, composer   

1902  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record   

1902  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record   

1904  On this day in history 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"   

1905  On March - 18 john Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)   

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) on March - 18.   

1907  On March - 18 eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)   

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast on this day in history.   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history uS magician Harry Houdini completes three controlled flights in a Voisin boxkite biplane at Digger's Rest, Victoria, the first controlled flight in a powered aircraft in Australia. mar181913 - Greece's King George I is assassinated in Salonika   

1910  On March - 18 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC   

1910  Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88) on March - 18.   

1911  North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law on March - 18.   

1911  On this day in history smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)   

1913  On this day in history king George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.   

1913  On March - 18 margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine   

1913  On March - 18 george I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67   

1914  On this day in history fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).   

1914  On this day in history white Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China on March - 18.   

1914  On this day in history cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill) on this day in history.   

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed on this day in history.   

1915  On March - 18 turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  On this day in history louis Toebosch, composer   

1917  On March - 18 william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies   

1918  On March - 18 socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam   

1918  On this day in history soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms   

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1380  On March - 18 birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  On this day in history birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

1548  On this day in history birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on March - 18.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.   

1590  On this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.   

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.   

0978  On March - 18 death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on March - 18.   

1314  On this day in history jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1582  On March - 18 death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on this day in history.   

1584  On March - 18 ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53