Historical Events In March - 24

1863  On March - 24 bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (  

1866  Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer on this day in history.  

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on March - 24.  

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1868  On March - 24 metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms  

1874  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history british frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost  

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  Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer on March - 24.  

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

1883  The first telephone call between New York &Chicago on March - 24.  

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

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

1884  On March - 24 gino Marinuzzi, composer  

1885  Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08) on this day in history.  

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

1887  On March - 24 the birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor  

1887  On March - 24 oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)  

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

1888  Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife) on this day in history.  

1890  On this day in history start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)  

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

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

1894  On March - 24 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA  

1894  On March - 24 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  On March - 24 birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)  

1494  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)  

1607  On March - 24 birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)  

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

1693  John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) was born on this day in history.  

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

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  On this day in history death of walter Hilton, English mystic  

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

1455  On March - 24 nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57  

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

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.