Today in History for March 1901

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 15

2nd - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
2nd - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
3rd - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
4th - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
4th - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
4th - Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
6th - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
11th - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
12th - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
14th - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
15th - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
17th - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
17th - A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
23rd - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
25th - 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 30 of 30

2nd - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber-merchant
4th - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles)
4th - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
5th - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
6th - Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
13th - Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
15th - Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
15th - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
15th - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
16th - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
17th - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
18th - Piotr Perkowski, composer
18th - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
19th - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
19th - Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
21st - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
21st - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
21st - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
22nd - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
23rd - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
23rd - Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
24th - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
25th - Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
27th - Albert Henneberg, composer
27th - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
27th - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
27th - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
27th - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
29th - Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet
29th - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

8th - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
8th - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
10th - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
13th - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
13th - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, dies at 67
17th - Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
31st - John Stainer, composer, dies at 60