Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Wed Mar 24 2021 06:00 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
03/24/1188 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
03/24/1441 Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86)
03/24/1494 Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)
03/24/1607 Michiel A de Ruyter, spy/fleet supervisor (St Vincent Dunes)
03/24/1630 Jos� Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal
03/24/1703 Jos� F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
03/24/1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
03/24/1732 Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
03/24/1740 John Antes, composer
03/24/1749 Bernard Jumentier, composer
03/24/1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
03/24/1802 Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch Second-Member of parliament
03/24/1809 Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
03/24/1814 Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
03/24/1817 Aime Maillart, composer
03/24/1821 [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
03/24/1834 John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
03/24/1834 William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
03/24/1835 Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
03/24/1837 Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
03/24/1855 Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman
03/24/1866 Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
03/24/1867 Mary [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85
03/24/1869 �mile Fabre, France, playwright, administrator of Com�die Fran�aise
03/24/1871 Ernest Rutherford, nuclear scientist
03/24/1874 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
03/24/1874 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
03/24/1878 Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rh�n-N], writer
03/24/1883 James I Wedgwood, British theosopholgist/catholic bishop
03/24/1884 Gino Marinuzzi, composer
03/24/1884 Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
03/24/1885 Charles Daniels, US, swimmer (Olympic-5 gold-1904)
03/24/1887 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies)
03/24/1890 Miguel Suriel, Neth Antillian writer (Muh� culpabel)
03/24/1891 Charley Toorop, house painter
03/24/1895 Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
03/24/1895 Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
03/24/1897 Charles Eyck, painter/sculptor
03/24/1897 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysis (character anaylsis)
03/24/1898 George Alpert, railroad executive
03/24/1902 Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
03/24/1903 Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
03/24/1905 Andr� Christiaens, Flemish writer (Onvindbaar country)
03/24/1906 John Cameron Swayze, news correspondant, Timex spokesman
03/24/1907 Lauris Norstad, US general NATO commander/CEO Owens-Corning Fibergla
03/24/1907 Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
03/24/1907 Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
03/24/1909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
03/24/1910 Jacques Chailley, composer
03/24/1910 Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Jean Arthur Show)
03/24/1911 Enrique Jord�, San Sebastian Spain conductor (SF Symphony Orch 1970)
03/24/1911 Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
03/24/1918 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
03/24/1919 John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965- )
03/24/1920 Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
03/24/1923 Murray Hamilton, Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
03/24/1924 Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
03/24/1927 Janos Decsenyi, composer
03/24/1928 Byron Janis, 'Yanks', McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
03/24/1928 Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
03/24/1930 Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
03/24/1930 Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullit
03/24/1931 Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
03/24/1932 William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0)
03/24/1933 David Harries, composer
03/24/1936 Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
03/24/1937 Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
03/24/1937 Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I do love you)
03/24/1937 Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987- )
03/24/1938 Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
03/24/1940 Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks Calif, designer (Striesand, Cher)
03/24/1943 H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
03/24/1943 Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
03/24/1944 Patti Labelle, singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon)
03/24/1946 Lee Oskar, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends?)
03/24/1947 Mike Kellie, drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
03/24/1947 Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/NP-parliament leader
03/24/1948 Lee Oskar, [Oskar L Hansen], Danish/US harmonica player (War)
03/24/1949 Fran Sheehan, bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
03/24/1949 Nick Lowe, vocalist/producer (I Knew the Bride)
03/24/1949 Steve Lang, rocker (April Wine)
03/24/1951 Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
03/24/1952 Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-The Insiders)
03/24/1954 Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
03/24/1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit
03/24/1954 Robert Carradine, LA Calif, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
03/24/1957 Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, USAF Capt/astronaut
03/24/1959 Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers)
03/24/1960 Kelly LeBrock, actress (Woman in Red)
03/24/1965 Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
03/24/1967 Kathy Rinaldi, Florida, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark, 1987)
03/24/1977 Olivia Burnette, San Clemente Calif, actress (Torkelsons)
Deaths:
03/24/ 809 Harun al-Rashid, caliph (786-809) of the Arabian Nights, dies at 44
03/24/1400 Florens Radewijns, priest/leader modern devotie, dies
03/24/1455 Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at
03/24/1455 Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55)
03/24/1471 Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
03/24/1558 Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies
03/24/1603 Elizabeth I Tudor, [the Maiden Queen], queen of England, dies at 69
03/24/1631 Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68
03/24/1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
03/24/1661 William Leddra, last Quaker in Boston, dies
03/24/1755 Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72
03/24/1823 Cornelis van Foreest, mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
03/24/1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64
03/24/1838 Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72
03/24/1842 Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59
03/24/1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, di
03/24/1877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies
03/24/1878 Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73
03/24/1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
03/24/1894 Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68
03/24/1905 Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
03/24/1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
03/24/1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, composer, dies at 48
03/24/1918 Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53
03/24/1921 Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48
03/24/1937 L�opold Courouble, Belgian writer (Pauline Platbrood), dies at 76
03/24/1941 Raf[ael] Verhulst, Flemish writer (Robert & Bertrand), dies at 75
03/24/1945 J S Nicklin, commandant Canada's 1st parachute battalion, dies
03/24/1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
03/24/1946 Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies
03/24/1946 Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66
03/24/1953 Felix M Able, French dominican, dies at 74
03/24/1953 Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
03/24/1960 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies
03/24/1964 Peter Lorre, German actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59
03/24/1967 Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63
03/24/1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, [Lou de Palingboer], sect leader, dies at 70
03/24/1969 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
03/24/1975 Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86
03/24/1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
03/24/1976 Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
03/24/1977 Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73
03/24/1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 6
03/24/1978 Leigh Brackett, US, sci-fi writer (Long Tomorrow), dies at 62
03/24/1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated saying mass in San Salvador
03/24/1980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass
03/24/1982 Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83
03/24/1984 Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies at 93 of cancer
03/24/1986 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 6
03/24/1990 An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
03/24/1990 Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies at 71 of kidney failure
03/24/1990 Rene Enrique, actor (Hill St Blues), dies at 56 of pancreatic cancer
03/24/1993 Erik Andriesse, painter (Skulls/Skeletons), dies at 35
03/24/1993 John Hersey, pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies
03/24/1993 Peter Roovers, sculptor/teacher (war monument), dies at 90
Significant Events:
03/24/1379 End of Gelderse war victory
03/24/1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
03/24/1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
03/24/1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
03/24/1734 Willem KH Friso marries princess Anna van Hannover
03/24/1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act
03/24/1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
03/24/1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
03/24/1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
03/24/1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
03/24/1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
03/24/1860 Asteroid 58, Concordia, discovered
03/24/1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
03/24/1860 R Luther discovers asteroid #58 Concordia
03/24/1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
03/24/1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
03/24/1883 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
03/24/1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
03/24/1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge' (BG)
03/24/1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
03/24/1894 G Bigourdan discovers asteroid #390 Alma
03/24/1913 Netherlands soccer teams 1st victory over England
03/24/1920 1st US coast guard air station established, Morehead City, NC
03/24/1924 Greece becomes a republic
03/24/1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
03/24/1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
03/24/1927 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
03/24/1927 Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
03/24/1930 1st religious services telecast in US, W2XBS, NYC
03/24/1931 C O Lampland discovers asteroid #1604 Tombaugh
03/24/1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train, WABC, from Maryland
03/24/1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1311 Knopfia
03/24/1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
03/24/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1318 Nerina
03/24/1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
03/24/1935 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1783 Albitskij
03/24/1936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th perio
03/24/1936 Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
03/24/1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
03/24/1941 British troops conquer British Somalia
03/24/1941 German attack near El Agheila Libya
03/24/1941 LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
03/24/1944 76 officers escape Stalag 3 (Great Escape)
03/24/1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
03/24/1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian aircraft land on the Rhine
03/24/1945 US reaches Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
03/24/1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
03/24/1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
03/24/1955 Tennessee Williams, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' opens on Broadway
03/24/1958 Elvis Presley inducted into army in Memphis Tenn
03/24/1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
03/24/1962 Benny Paret, KOs in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
03/24/1962 Cincinnati wins NCAA basketball championship
03/24/1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
03/24/1962 Ohio State beats Cincinnati 71-59 for NCAA championship
03/24/1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
03/24/1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
03/24/1967 U of Mich holds 1st 'Teach-in' after bombing of North Vietnam
03/24/1970 French cartoonist Pi�t ends 'Sjors & Sjimmie' strip
03/24/1971 C J Van Houten discovers asteroids #1870 Glaukos, #1871 Astyanax,
03/24/1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
03/24/1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
03/24/1973 SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
03/24/1974 North Carolina State University wins NCAA basketball championship
03/24/1975 Muhammad Ali KOs Chuck Wepner to retain the heavyweight boxing title
03/24/1976 Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
03/24/1978 Wings release 'With a Little Luck'
03/24/1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
03/24/1979 P Wild discovers asteroid #2303 Retsina
03/24/1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed 'Nightline'
03/24/1980 Denny Crum won his 1st NCAA basketball championship
03/24/1980 Louisville beats UCLA, 59-54 for NCAA championship
03/24/1981 'Nightline with Ted Koppel' premieres on ABC
03/24/1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
03/24/1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
03/24/1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
03/24/1984 Sch�ne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52
03/24/1986 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
03/24/1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
03/24/1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
03/24/1989 Mary Martin in 'Peter Pan,' 1st seen on TV since 1973
03/24/1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alask
03/24/1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
03/24/1991 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
03/24/1991 Wrestlemania 7-Hulk Hogan defeats Sgt Slaughter for championship
03/24/1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis
03/24/1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
03/24/1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
03/24/1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
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