Page 4: Historical Events In March - 24

1895  Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party) on this day in history.   

1896  Gianna Manzini, writer on March - 24.   

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

1898  On March - 24 the first recoreded sale of an automobile   

1898  On March - 24 1st automobile sold   

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  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  On this day in history june [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet   

1902  On this day in history thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)   

1903  On March - 24 adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)   

1905  Jules Verne the father of science fiction was died on March - 24.   

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

1905  Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 on March - 24.   

1906  "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change! on March - 24.   

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

1906  John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS] on March - 24.   

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

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

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

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

1910  Jacques Chailley, composer on this day in history.   

1911  Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator) on this day in history.   

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

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

1913  On this day in history netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England   

1914  Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian) on March - 24.   

1916  On March - 24 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 this day in history.   

1919  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind) on March - 24.   

1920  On this day in history uS coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)   

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1188  On this day in history 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  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 March - 24.   

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

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  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1284  On March - 24 death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

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

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on this day in history.   

1400  On this day in history florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies   

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  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.