Historical Events In March - 24

1895  Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party) on this day in history.   

1896  On March - 24 gianna Manzini, writer   

1897  On March - 24 charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor   

1898  The first recoreded sale of an automobile on this day in history.   

1898  On March - 24 1st automobile sold   

1898  Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard) on this day in history.   

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on this day in history.   

1900  New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn on this day in history.   

1900  June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet on this day in history.   

1902  Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R) on this day in history.   

1903  Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) on March - 24.   

1905  Jules Verne the father of science fiction was died on March - 24.   

1905  On March - 24 andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)   

1905  Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 on March - 24.   

1906  "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change! on this day in history.   

1906  On this day in history "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world   

1906  On March - 24 john Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]   

1907  On this day in history the first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.   

1907  On this day in history janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)   

1909  On March - 24 clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)   

1909  On this day in history john Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37   

1910  On March - 24 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March   

1910  On this day in history 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March   

1910  On this day in history jacques Chailley, composer   

1911  On this day in history herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)   

1911  On March - 24 matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies   

1913  Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England on March - 24.   

1913  On March - 24 netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England   

1914  On this day in history lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)   

1916  On this day in history enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48   

1918  On March - 24 englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter   

1918  Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1919  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind) on March - 24.   

1920  US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) on March - 24.   

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1188  On March - 24 birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I   

1441  On this day in history birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

1494  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  On this day in history birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)   

1628  On this day in history birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

1630  On this day in history birth of jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal   

1657  On March - 24 birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

1693  On this day in history birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)   

0809  On this day in history harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44   

1284  On March - 24 death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on March - 24.   

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on March - 24.   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on March - 24.   

1455  Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 on March - 24.   

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.