Today in History for March 1900

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

3rd - US Steel Corporation organizes
5th - American Hall of Fame found
7th - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees
7th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
8th - NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
10th - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
12th - President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
13th - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
13th - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
14th - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
14th - US currency goes on gold standard
16th - AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
16th - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
16th - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
17th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
18th - Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
24th - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
25th - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
26th - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
30th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
31st - Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

1st - Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1st - Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1st - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
2nd - Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
3rd - Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
4th - Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
4th - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
5th - Ludwig Donath, actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
6th - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian (University of London)
6th - Ludwig Donath, Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco)
6th - Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
7th - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter
7th - [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter (magic realism)
9th - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
9th - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
10th - Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
12th - David Croll, QC senator
12th - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
13th - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
15th - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
17th - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
19th - Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
19th - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
21st - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
21st - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
23rd - Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
23rd - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer
24th - June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet
26th - Isadore Freed, composer
28th - Achille Longo, composer
28th - Robert Harris, actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne)
29th - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
29th - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
31st - Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

6th - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
10th - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
11th - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
18th - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32
19th - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
19th - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
26th - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
27th - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
31st - Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies