Today in History for March 1883

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 7 of 7

3rd - Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
4th - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
19th - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
20th - Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
24th - 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
31st - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
31st - Utrecht begins water pipe system

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 25 of 25

1st - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
3rd - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
4th - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
5th - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
7th - Carl Deis, composer
8th - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
9th - Umberto Saba, writer
12th - Judge Jackson, composer
12th - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
13th - Enrico Toselli, composer
14th - Juan Manen, composer
16th - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
17th - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
19th - Josef Matthias Hauer, composer
19th - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
20th - Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
20th - Karl Hasse, composer
21st - Jules van Nuffel, composer
23rd - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria
24th - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
27th - Jan Kunc, composer
27th - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
28th - William H Harris, composer
29th - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
30th - Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

4th - Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71
12th - Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
14th - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
15th - Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55

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