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  On March - 18 antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32   

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on March - 18.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1905  John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata) on this day in history.   

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

1907  Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble) on March - 18.   

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 March - 18.   

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

1910  On March - 18 chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)   

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 this day in history 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 March - 18 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 this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

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 this day in history.   

1915  On March - 18 failed British attack in Dardanelles   

1915  Richard Thomas Condon, author on this day in history.   

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer on March - 18.   

1917  On March - 18 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 March - 18.   

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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 this day in history.   

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  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

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

1578  On March - 18 birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

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

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

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 March - 18.   

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