Historical Events In March - 18

1899  On this day in history 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 March - 18.   

1901  Piotr Perkowski, composer on this day in history.   

1902  Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record on March - 18.   

1902  Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record on this day in history.   

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

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

1906  On March - 18 roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)   

1907  On this day in history eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)   

1908  Louis Gaste, songwriter on this day in history.   

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

1909  Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast on March - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1911  On March - 18 north Dakota enacts a hail insurance law   

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 March - 18.   

1913  Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine on March - 18.   

1913  On March - 18 george I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67   

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 March - 18.   

1914  On this day in history white Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  On March - 18 cesar Guerra Peixe, composer   

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill) on this day in history.   

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War   

1915  On this day in history failed British attack in Dardanelles   

1915  On this day in history richard Thomas Condon, author   

1916  On March - 18 louis Toebosch, composer   

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  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on March - 18.   

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1380  On this day in history birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on this day in history.   

1548  On March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on March - 18.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.   

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

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.   

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  On this day in history john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

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 March - 18.