Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

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

1900  On this day in history 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  Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record on March - 18.   

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

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

1905  On this day in history 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  Louis Gaste, songwriter on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) on March - 18.   

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

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

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

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

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

1915  On this day in history failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill)   

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

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

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.   

1915  Richard Thomas Condon, author on March - 18.   

1916  On this day in history louis Toebosch, composer   

1917  On this day in history william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies   

1918  Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

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

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

1395  On March - 18 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  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on March - 18.   

1556  On this day in history birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

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

1602  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1314  On March - 18 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 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 March - 18.   

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