Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

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

1900  Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms on March - 18.   

1900  Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 on March - 18.   

1901  On March - 18 piotr Perkowski, composer   

1902  On this day in history enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record   

1902  Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record on March - 18.   

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  On March - 18 roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)   

1907  Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble) on this day in history.   

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast on March - 18.   

1909  On this day in history einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast   

1910  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 on this day in history.   

1910  1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)   

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

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) on this day in history.   

1913  On March - 18 king George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.   

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine on March - 18.   

1913  George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 on this day in history.   

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

1914  White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China on this day in history.   

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

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer on March - 18.   

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

1915  On this day in history french battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed   

1915  Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War on this day in history.   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.   

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 this day in history socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam   

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on this day in history.   

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1380  On this day in history birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.   

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  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

0235  On March - 18 death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  On this day in history death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

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

1493  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  On this day in history death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

1583  On this day in history death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on March - 18.