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  On this day in history antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32  

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  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record  

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

1905  On this day in history john Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)  

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) on March - 18.  

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

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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

1911  North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law on this day in history.  

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

1913  George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 on March - 18.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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 March - 18.  

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.  

1915  On March - 18 richard Thomas Condon, author  

1916  On this day in history louis Toebosch, composer  

1917  On March - 18 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 March - 18 soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms  

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

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 March - 18.  

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  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 this day in history.  

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.  

0978  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies  

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 March - 18.  

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