Historical Events In March - 18

1899  On this day in history douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76  

1900  On March - 18 ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms  

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

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 March - 18 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"  

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

1906  On this day in history 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 this day in history louis Gaste, songwriter  

1909  On March - 18 einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast  

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

1910  On March - 18 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  On March - 18 north Dakota enacts a hail insurance law  

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

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

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

1913  On this day in history george I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67  

1914  On March - 18 fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).  

1914  On March - 18 white Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China  

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

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer on this day in history.  

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill) on March - 18.  

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed on March - 18.  

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

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

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author  

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer on this day in history.  

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  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on March - 18.  

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on March - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

1548  On March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet  

1556  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant  

1578  On this day in history birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized  

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.  

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)  

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

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on March - 18.  

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

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on this day in history.  

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  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