Today in History for March 1905

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 8 of 8

3rd - US Forest Service forms
4th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
10th - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
10th - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
11th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
25th - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
28th - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
31st - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

1st - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1st - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
2nd - Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
5th - Gilroy Roberts, US chief engraver (1948-64)
7th - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki)
9th - Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
9th - Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
9th - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
9th - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
10th - Rene Bernier, composer
10th - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
14th - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
15th - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
15th - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
16th - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
18th - John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
18th - Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
18th - Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
18th - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
19th - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
20th - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
21st - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
22nd - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
22nd - Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
22nd - Phyllis McGinley, poet
22nd - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
23rd - Paul Grimault, animator
23rd - Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor (London)
23rd - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
23rd - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce), (d. 1977)
24th - Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
24th - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
25th - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
26th - Pablo Garrido, composer
26th - Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
27th - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
28th - Marlin Perkins, Carthage Mo, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)
28th - Pandro S Berman, film producer
29th - Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
29th - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
30th - Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
30th - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

17th - Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

6th - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
12th - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
15th - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
15th - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
19th - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
24th - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
26th - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)