Historical Events In March - 18

1899  Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 on March - 18.  

1900  Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms on this day in history.  

1900  Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 on this day in history.  

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on this day in history.  

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 March - 18.  

1905  John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata) on March - 18.  

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) on this day in history.  

1907  On March - 18 eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)  

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter  

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

1909  On March - 18 einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast  

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1911  On March - 18 north Dakota enacts a hail insurance law  

1911  On this day in history smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)  

1913  King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki on this day in history.  

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine on this day in history.  

1913  On March - 18 george I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67  

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

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

1914  On this day in history white Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China  

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

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

1915  On March - 18 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 March - 18.  

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.  

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author  

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer on March - 18.  

1917  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.  

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)  

1496  On this day in history birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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  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  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 this day in history.  

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53