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  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history university boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat   

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

1877  On this day in history walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51   

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 March - 24.   

1878  Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer on this day in history.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

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

1881  Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 on March - 24.   

1882  German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB on this day in history.   

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

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1883  On March - 24 the first telephone call between New York &Chicago   

1883  1st telephone call between NY & Chicago on this day in history.   

1883  On this day in history james I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop   

1884  On March - 24 gino Marinuzzi, composer   

1885  On March - 24 charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)   

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

1887  The birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor on March - 24.   

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

1887  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) on March - 24.   

1888  On March - 24 jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)   

1890  On March - 24 start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)   

1891  On this day in history annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)   

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

1894  37 miners killed at Franklin, WA on March - 24.   

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

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1188  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

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

1628  On March - 24 birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

1630  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on this day in history.   

1657  On March - 24 birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

1693  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on this day in history.   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on this day in history.   

1455  On this day in history nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57   

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on March - 24.   

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