Today in History for March 1906

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

3rd - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
6th - Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
6th - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
6th - Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
7th - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
8th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
10th - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
10th - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
10th - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
12th - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
14th - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
15th - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
17th - Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
17th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
17th - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
19th - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
20th - George B Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London
24th - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
27th - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 29th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
31st - GB Shaws German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin"

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37

3rd - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
3rd - Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
3rd - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
4th - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
4th - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
4th - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
6th - Bob Wills, TX, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)
6th - Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
7th - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
7th - Hans Lachman, composer
11th - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
14th - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
16th - Francisco Ayala, writer
16th - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
17th - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
17th - Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
17th - Tamara Geva, dancer
18th - Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
19th - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
19th - Normand Lockwood, composer
20th - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
20th - Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
20th - Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (21st) 21st - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
21st - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
23rd - George Posford, composer
24th - John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]
24th - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
25th - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
25th - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
25th - Jean Sablon, crooner
26th - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
27th - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
28th - Joseph Wright, Canada, oarsman (Olympic-gold-1928)
28th - Robert (Bob) Allen, actor (Texas Rangers)
29th - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
31st - Lauri Saikkola, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

1st - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
4th - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
10th - Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67
13th - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
15th - Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
17th - Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82
22nd - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
23rd - Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
29th - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
30th - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73