Page 3: Historical Events In March - 24

1863  On March - 24 bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (   

1866  Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer on this day in history.   

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on this day in history.   

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

1868  On March - 24 metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms   

1874  Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist on March - 24.   

1877  University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat on March - 24.   

1877  University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51   

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

1878  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 on this day in history.   

1878  Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer on March - 24.   

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

1880  On March - 24 tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut   

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

1881  On this day in history friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

1882  German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB on March - 24.   

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet died   

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75   

1883  On this day in history the first telephone call between New York &Chicago   

1883  On March - 24 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago   

1883  On this day in history james I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop   

1884  Gino Marinuzzi, composer on this day in history.   

1885  On this day in history charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)   

1887  Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) on this day in history.   

1887  The birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor on March - 24.   

1887  Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) on March - 24.   

1887  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) on this day in history.   

1888  Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife) on March - 24.   

1890  Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) on this day in history.   

1891  On March - 24 annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)   

1894  On this day in history 37 miners killed at Franklin WA   

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  On March - 24 birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on March - 24.   

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

1628  On this day in history birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

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

1657  On this day in history birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

1693  On March - 24 birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)   

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on March - 24.   

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  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on this day in history.   

1455  On March - 24 nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57   

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

1558  On March - 24 anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies