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 March - 18 piotr Perkowski, composer  

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

1902  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record  

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

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

1906  On March - 18 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 March - 18.  

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  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 this day in history 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  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) on March - 18.  

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

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

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

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

1914  On March - 18 cesar Guerra Peixe, composer  

1915  On March - 18 failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill)  

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

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

1915  On March - 18 failed British attack in Dardanelles  

1915  On March - 18 richard Thomas Condon, author  

1916  On this day in history louis Toebosch, composer  

1917  William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies on March - 18.  

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

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on March - 18.  

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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  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  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.  

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  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 March - 18.  

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.  

1493  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82  

1582  On this day in history death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched  

1583  On this day in history death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)  

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on March - 18.