Historical Events In March - 24

1895  On March - 24 arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)  

1896  On March - 24 gianna Manzini, writer  

1897  On March - 24 charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor  

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

1898  On March - 24 1st automobile sold  

1898  On March - 24 dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)  

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on March - 24.  

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

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

1902  Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R) on this day in history.  

1903  Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) on March - 24.  

1905  Jules Verne the father of science fiction was died on this day in history.  

1905  On this day in history 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  On March - 24 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change!  

1906  "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world on March - 24.  

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

1907  On March - 24 the first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.  

1907  Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender) on March - 24.  

1909  Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) on March - 24.  

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

1910  On March - 24 83�F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March  

1910  83�F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March on March - 24.  

1910  Jacques Chailley, composer on this day in history.  

1911  On this day in history herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)  

1911  On this day in history matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies  

1913  Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England on this day in history.  

1913  On March - 24 netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England  

1914  Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian) on this day in history.  

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

1918  On March - 24 englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter  

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  On March - 24 uS coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)  

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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 March - 24 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  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) was born on March - 24.  

1630  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on March - 24.  

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 March - 24 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  On this day in history death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint  

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  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 this day in history.  

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