Page 5: Historical Events In March - 18

1899  On this day in history douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76   

1900  On this day in history ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms   

1900  On March - 18 antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32   

1901  On this day in history piotr Perkowski, composer   

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 this day in history 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 March - 18.   

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

1909  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1910  1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)   

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

1911  On this day in history smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)   

1913  On March - 18 king George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.   

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

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

1914  On March - 18 fourteen suffragettes are arrested and fined in Perth for wearing unsheathed hatpins (which they were said to have used as weapons).   

1914  On March - 18 white Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China   

1914  On March - 18 white Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China   

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

1915  Failed British attack in Dardanelles (The plan was supported by Winston Churchill) on March - 18.   

1915  French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed on March - 18.   

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  Richard Thomas Condon, author on this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history louis Toebosch, composer   

1917  On March - 18 william Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies   

1918  On this day in history socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam   

1918  On March - 18 soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on March - 18.   

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

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

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 this day in history.   

1578  On March - 18 birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

0978  On March - 18 death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

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 this day in history.   

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on March - 18.   

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 March - 18.