Today in History for March 1910
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 22 of 22
1st - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
2nd - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
3rd - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
5th - Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres
5th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
8th - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
10th - China ends slavery
10th - Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
11th - Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
12th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
14th - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
16th - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
17th - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
18th - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
23rd - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
24th - 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
25th - Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
26th - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
26th - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
27th - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
28th - 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
30th - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 39 of 39
1st - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
2nd - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
3rd - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
4th - Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
5th - Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
8th - Bernard Benjamin, statistician, actuary and demographer (d. 2002)
9th - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
9th - Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)
11th - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
12th - Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
12th - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
12th - Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
12th - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
13th - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
13th - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
15th - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
16th - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
16th - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
16th - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
16th - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
16th - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
17th - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
18th - Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
19th - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
19th - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
21st - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
21st - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
22nd - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
23rd - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
23rd - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer/actress (Der Pott)
24th - Jacques Chailley, composer
24th - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
25th - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
25th - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
27th - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
28th - Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark
28th - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
28th - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
30th - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 11 of 11
4th - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
10th - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
10th - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
17th - Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
20th - Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89
26th - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
26th - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
27th - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
27th - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
28th - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
28th - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
