Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

1899  Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 on March - 18.   

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

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 March - 18.   

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

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

1907  On March - 18 eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)   

1908  On March - 18 louis Gaste, songwriter   

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

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  On March - 18 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 March - 18.   

1913  On this day in history margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine   

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

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 March - 18.   

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

1914  Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer on this day in history.   

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

1915  On March - 18 french battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed   

1915  On this day in history 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  Richard Thomas Condon, author on this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1918  Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms on this day in history.   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1548  On March - 18 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  On this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

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

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

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  On this day in history death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

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

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