Page 6: Historical Events In March - 03

1900  US Steel Corporation organizes.   

1900  Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)   

1901  Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce   

1901  Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce.   

1902  Ruby Dandridge, Memphis Tenn, actress (Father of the Bride).   

1902  Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79   

1903  North Carolina is recorded as becoming inaugural state requiring registration of nurses   

1903  North Carolina is recorded as becoming 1st state requiring registration of nurses.   

1903  Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer.   

1904  Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany is recorded as becoming the inaugural person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder   

1905  US Forest Service forms.   

1906  Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France.   

1906  Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)   

1907  Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer   

1908  Riccardo Nielsen, composer   

1909  Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician.   

1911  Jean Harlow, American film star is born.   

1911  The inaugural US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri.   

1911  Francesco Siciliani, opera composer   

1912  Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears).   

1913  Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC   

1913  Margaret AR Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger   

1914  Martin Ritt, actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)   

1915  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created.   

1915  The now-famous film, "Birth of a Nation", debuted in New York City.   

1915  George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur.   

1917  Congress passes inaugural excess profits tax on corporations.   

1917  Great monarch Michael steps down after 1 day as czar.   

1917  Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates.   

1917  Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)   

1918  Russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and Austria   

1918  Arnold Newman, photographer (Faces USA)   

1919  Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike   

1919  inaugural international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria BC   

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1455  King john ii of portugal: King john ii of portugal (d. 1495)   

1500  Reginald pole: English cardinal/"heretic"   

1520  Matthias flacius: Croatian protestant reformer   

1583  Edward herbert of cherbury: English military/philosopher   

1589  Gisbertus voetius: [gijsbert voet], dutch reformed theologist   

1606  Edmund waller: England, poet (penshust)   

1652  Thomas otway: England, playwright/poet (venice preserved)   

1678  Madeleine de verchères: French canadian heroine   

0561  Pelagius i: Italian pope (547-51, 556-61),   

1191  Saladin [salah ad-din]) yusuf: Sultan of egypt/syria,   

1239  Vladimir iii rurikovich: Grand prince of kiev (b. 1187)   

1459  Ausias march: Catalan poet,   

1554  Death of Johann friedrich: The generous, elector of saxony (1532-47) and head of the protestant confederation of germany (the schmalkaldic league),   

1580  Jacob hillebrand: Dutch mayor of groningen,   

1635  Death of Philips de l'espinoy: Historian/mayor of ghent,   

1703  Death of Robert hooke: Scientific genius,