Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

1900  Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms.   

1900  Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32   

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer   

1902  Enrico Caruso is recorded as becoming inaugural well-known performer to make a record   

1902  Enrico Caruso is recorded as becoming 1st well-known performer to make a record   

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

1905  John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata).   

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)   

1907  Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)   

1908  Louis Gaste, songwriter.   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes inaugural ham broadcast   

1909  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 inaugural 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   

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

1911  North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law.   

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)   

1913  King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.   

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine   

1913  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)   

1914  White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

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

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed   

1915  Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during inaugural World War   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles   

1915  Richard Thomas Condon, author.   

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer   

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

1918  Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam.   

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms.   

1918  Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80.   

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1380  On March - 18 birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  On this day in history birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

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 this day in history.   

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on this day in history.   

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 March - 18.   

1493  On this day in history 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  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on this day in history.