Historical Events In March - 18

1899  Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1900  Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms on March - 18.   

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

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on March - 18.   

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

1902  On this day in history enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record   

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

1905  On this day in history john Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)   

1906  Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean) on March - 18.   

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

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter   

1909  On March - 18 einar Dessau of Denmark makes first ham broadcast   

1909  On March - 18 einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast   

1910  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 on March - 18.   

1910  1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC on March - 18.   

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

1911  On this day in history north Dakota enacts a hail insurance law   

1911  Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) on this day in history.   

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

1913  On March - 18 margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine   

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

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

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

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

1914  On March - 18 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 this day in history.   

1915  On March - 18 richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  On March - 18 louis Toebosch, composer   

1917  William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies on this day in history.   

1918  Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on March - 18.   

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1380  On March - 18 birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  On this day in history birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

1548  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on March - 18.   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.   

1590  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.   

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

0978  On this day in history death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  On this day in history jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

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

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on this day in history.   

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on this day in history.