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 this day in history.   

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on March - 18.   

1902  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record   

1902  Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record on this day in history.   

1904  1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" on March - 18.   

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

1906  On March - 18 roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)   

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

1908  Louis Gaste, songwriter on March - 18.   

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  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 March - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1911  On March - 18 smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)   

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

1913  On this day in history margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine   

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

1914  On this day in history 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 March - 18.   

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer on March - 18.   

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

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed on this day in history.   

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

1915  On this day in history failed British attack in Dardanelles   

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  On March - 18 louis Toebosch, composer   

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

1918  On this day in history socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam   

1918  On this day in history soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms   

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1380  On March - 18 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  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 March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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  On March - 18 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  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  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on March - 18.   

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