Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

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

1900  On March - 18 ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms   

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

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 March - 18.   

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  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  Louis Gaste, songwriter on March - 18.   

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

1909  On this day in history 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  1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)   

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

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  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine on March - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history 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 March - 18 cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

1915  On this day in history failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill)   

1915  On March - 18 french battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed   

1915  On March - 18 turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.   

1915  On March - 18 richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer on this day in history.   

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

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

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  On this day in history 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  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  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on this day in history.   

1314  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

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