Page 2: Historical Events In October - 06
Friday, 20 March 2026
1816 William Batchelder Bradbury, composer. 

1818 Joseph Rummel, composer. 

1819 Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer. 

1819 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies. 

1824 Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book. 

1827 Cark Reidel, composer 

1831 J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature and Meaning of Numbers) 

1837 Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 

1846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. 

1847 Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor 

1849 The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence 

1849 Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death". 

1854 The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. 

1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 

1857 American Chess Assn organized; inaugural major US chess tournament (NYC). 

1857 American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) 

1860 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao). 

1860 Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55. 

1861 Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert. 

1861 Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84 

1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive) 

1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the inaugural public bath, in Brooklyn. 

1863 Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas 

1866 inaugural train robbery in US. 

1866 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13000) 

1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice and music 

1868 Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51. 

1869 John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres 

1871 Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour 

1873 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer 

1874 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50 

1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia. 

1880 Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano. 

1880 Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies. 

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