Page 4: Historical Events In March - 23

1876  Muirhead Bone, Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture on March - 23.   

1878  On this day in history franz Schrecker, composer   

1879  War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country on this day in history.   

1880  On March - 23 flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)   

1880  Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc) on this day in history.   

1880  On this day in history gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67   

1881  On this day in history boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war   

1881  Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die on this day in history.   

1881  On March - 23 boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war   

1881  On March - 23 hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)   

1881  On this day in history nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45   

1882  On March - 23 sECNAV Hunt issues General Order No. 292 creating Office of Naval Intelligence.   

1882  On March - 23 c Montague Shaw, Adelaide Australia   

1883  On March - 23 faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria   

1884  On this day in history glauco Velasquez, composer   

1887  More than 80 miners die in gas explosion in colliery at Bulli, NSW on March - 23.   

1887  The birth of Juan Gris, Spanish painter on March - 23.   

1887  On March - 23 anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)   

1889  On March - 23 edmonton Alberta's temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record.   

1889  President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization on March - 23.   

1889  Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization on March - 23.   

1891  On this day in history the first jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall   

1891  Catherine Murphy Urner, composer on this day in history.   

1895  On March - 23 dane Rudhyar, composer   

1896  Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan on this day in history.   

1898  Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus on this day in history.   

1900  On March - 23 erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)   

1901  On this day in history dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast   

1901  Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23] on March - 23.   

1902  On March - 23 philip Ober, Fort Payne Ala, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)   

1903  Wright brothers obtain airplane patent on March - 23.   

1905  Paul Grimault, animator on this day in history.   

1906  George Posford, composer on this day in history.   

1906  On this day in history victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v S Afr 1892), dies   

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1429  On March - 23 birth of margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)   

1599  On this day in history birth of thomas Selle, composer   

1638  Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist was born on this day in history.   

1645  On March - 23 birth of william Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)   

1699  John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany was born on this day in history.   

1723  Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) was born on March - 23.   

1732  On March - 23 birth of marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)   

1736  Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83) was born on March - 23.   

1103  Death of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058) on this day in history.   

1169  On March - 23 shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies   

1237  Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies on March - 23.   

1361  Death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310) on this day in history.   

1369  Death of Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered on March - 23.   

1548  Death of Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen on this day in history.   

1555  On March - 23 julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67   

1559  Death of Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522) on this day in history.