Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

1899  On March - 18 douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76   

1900  Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms on this day in history.   

1900  Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 on this day in history.   

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on this day in history.   

1902  Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record on this day in history.   

1902  On March - 18 enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record   

1904  1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" on this day in history.   

1905  John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata) on March - 18.   

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) on this day in history.   

1907  Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble) on March - 18.   

1908  On this day in history louis Gaste, songwriter   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast on March - 18.   

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history uS magician Harry Houdini completes three controlled flights in a Voisin boxkite biplane at Digger's Rest, Victoria, the first controlled flight in a powered aircraft in Australia. mar181913 - Greece's King George I is assassinated in Salonika   

1910  On this day in history 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC   

1910  Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88) on March - 18.   

1911  North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law on March - 18.   

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) on March - 18.   

1913  King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki on this day in history.   

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine on this day in history.   

1913  George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 on March - 18.   

1914  On this day in history fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).   

1914  White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China on this day in history.   

1914  On March - 18 white Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  On this day in history cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

1915  On March - 18 failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill)   

1915  On this day in history french battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed   

1915  On March - 18 turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles on March - 18.   

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  Louis Toebosch, composer on this day in history.   

1917  On this day in history william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies   

1918  Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam on March - 18.   

1918  On this day in history soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on March - 18.   

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

1548  On this day in history birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

1578  On this day in history birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  On March - 18 death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on this day in history.   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.   

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on March - 18.   

1582  On March - 18 death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on March - 18.   

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53