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  On this day in history jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer   

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

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on March - 24.   

1868  On this day in history metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms   

1874  On March - 24 harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist   

1877  On this day in history university boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat   

1877  On March - 24 university boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat   

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on March - 24.   

1878  British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost on March - 24.   

1878  On March - 24 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  On this day in history albin Masek, composer, dies at 73   

1880  On March - 24 tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut   

1880  Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT on this day in history.   

1881  Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1882  German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB on March - 24.   

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet died   

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

1883  1st telephone call between NY & Chicago on this day in history.   

1883  James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop on this day in history.   

1884  Gino Marinuzzi, composer on this day in history.   

1885  On March - 24 charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)   

1887  On this day in history oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)   

1887  On this day in history the birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor   

1887  On this day in history oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)   

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

1888  On March - 24 jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)   

1890  Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) on March - 24.   

1891  On March - 24 annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)   

1894  On March - 24 37 miners killed at Franklin WA   

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

1894  On March - 24 robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68   

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

1441  On March - 24 birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on March - 24.   

1607  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1657  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on this day in history.   

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

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on March - 24.   

1284  On this day in history death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

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  On March - 24 florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies   

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