Page 3: Historical Events In March - 24

1863  Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. ( on this day in history.   

1866  On March - 24 jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer   

1866  On March - 24 maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies   

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on March - 24.   

1868  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms on March - 24.   

1874  On March - 24 harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist   

1877  University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat on this day in history.   

1877  On March - 24 university boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat   

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on March - 24.   

1878  British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost on March - 24.   

1878  HMS Eurydice, a training ship, sank in a freak squall off Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the loss of 330 lives. Only 2 were saved on this day in history.   

1878  On March - 24 top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer   

1878  On March - 24 albin Masek, composer, dies at 73   

1880  On March - 24 tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut   

1880  Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT on March - 24.   

1881  On this day in history friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

1882  On March - 24 german scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB   

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet died on this day in history.   

1882  On March - 24 henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75   

1883  The first telephone call between New York &Chicago on this day in history.   

1883  On March - 24 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago   

1883  James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop on this day in history.   

1884  On this day in history gino Marinuzzi, composer   

1885  On this day in history charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)   

1887  On March - 24 oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)   

1887  On this day in history the birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor   

1887  Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) on March - 24.   

1887  On March - 24 roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)   

1888  Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife) on March - 24.   

1890  Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) on March - 24.   

1891  On March - 24 annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)   

1894  37 miners killed at Franklin WA on this day in history.   

1894  On this day in history 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA   

1894  On this day in history robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68   

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1188  On March - 24 birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I   

1441  Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born on March - 24.   

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on March - 24.   

1607  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on March - 24.   

1628  On this day in history birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

1630  On this day in history birth of jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal   

1657  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on this day in history.   

1693  On March - 24 birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)   

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1284  On this day in history death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on March - 24.   

1396  On March - 24 death of walter Hilton, English mystic   

1400  On this day in history florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies   

1455  Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 on March - 24.   

1471  On this day in history thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55   

1558  On March - 24 anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies