Page 3: Historical Events In March - 24

1863  On this day in history bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (   

1866  On March - 24 jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer   

1866  On March - 24 maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies   

1867  On March - 24 mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85   

1868  Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms on March - 24.   

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

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

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

1877  On March - 24 walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51   

1878  British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost on this day in history.   

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  Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer on this day in history.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1880  On this day in history tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT   

1881  On March - 24 friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

1882  German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB on this day in history.   

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  On March - 24 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago   

1883  James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop on March - 24.   

1884  Gino Marinuzzi, composer on this day in history.   

1885  Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08) on this day in history.   

1887  Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) on March - 24.   

1887  On March - 24 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 March - 24.   

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  Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations) on March - 24.   

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

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

1894  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.   

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1188  On this day in history birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I   

1441  Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born on this day in history.   

1494  On March - 24 birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on March - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

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  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on this day in history.   

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on March - 24.   

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

1400  On March - 24 florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies   

1455  Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 on March - 24.   

1471  On this day in history thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55   

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.