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 March - 24.   

1866  Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer on March - 24.   

1866  On this day in history maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies   

1867  On this day in history mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85   

1868  On March - 24 metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms   

1874  On this day in history harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist   

1877  University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat on March - 24.   

1877  University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat on March - 24.   

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

1878  On this day in history british frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost   

1878  On this day in history 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.   

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

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

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

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 March - 24.   

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet died on March - 24.   

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

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

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

1883  On March - 24 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  Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) on this day in history.   

1887  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) on this day in history.   

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

1890  Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) on this day in history.   

1891  Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations) on this day in history.   

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

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

1894  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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1188  Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born on March - 24.   

1441  Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born on this day in history.   

1494  On March - 24 birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  On this day in history 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  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  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on March - 24.   

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

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 March - 24 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 this day in history anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies