Historical Events In March - 24

1895  On this day in history arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)   

1896  Gianna Manzini, writer on this day in history.   

1897  On this day in history charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor   

1898  On this day in history the first recoreded sale of an automobile   

1898  1st automobile sold on this day in history.   

1898  On this day in history dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)   

1899  On March - 24 billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies   

1900  On March - 24 new York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.   

1900  June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet on this day in history.   

1902  On March - 24 thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)   

1903  On this day in history adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)   

1905  On March - 24 jules Verne the father of science fiction was died   

1905  On March - 24 andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)   

1905  On this day in history jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77   

1906  "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change! on this day in history.   

1906  On this day in history "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world   

1906  John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS] on this day in history.   

1907  On this day in history the first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.   

1907  On this day in history janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)   

1909  On this day in history clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)   

1909  On this day in history john Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37   

1910  On this day in history 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March   

1910  83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March on this day in history.   

1910  On March - 24 jacques Chailley, composer   

1911  On March - 24 herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)   

1911  Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies on March - 24.   

1913  On March - 24 netherlands soccer team's first victory over England   

1913  Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England on March - 24.   

1914  On this day in history lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)   

1916  On this day in history enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48   

1918  Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter on March - 24.   

1918  Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53 on March - 24.   

1919  On March - 24 lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)   

1920  US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) on this day in history.   

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

1441  On this day in history birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

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

1607  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on this day in history.   

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 March - 24.   

1693  On this day in history birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)   

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

1284  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on this day in history.   

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on this day in history.   

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on March - 24.   

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

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

1471  On March - 24 thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55   

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