355 Historic Events for March 16
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| 1876 |
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Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
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| 1876 |
Birth |
Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
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| 1877 |
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Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
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| 1878 |
Birth |
Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
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| 1878 |
Birth |
Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
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| 1878 |
Death |
William Banting, English undertaker, dies
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| 1878 |
Birth |
Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
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| 1881 |
Event |
Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts
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| 1881 |
Death |
Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
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| 1882 |
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US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
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| 1882 |
Death |
Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73
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| 1884 |
Birth |
Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
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| 1885 |
Birth |
Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)
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| 1887 |
Death |
Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
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| 1892 |
Birth |
C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
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| 1892 |
Birth |
Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
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| 1893 |
Birth |
Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
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| 1894 |
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Jules Massenet's opera "Tha‹s," premieres in Paris
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| 1896 |
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Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
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| 1896 |
Birth |
Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
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| 1897 |
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
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| 1898 |
Death |
Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
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| 1900 |
Event |
Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve and Buffalo
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| 1900 |
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AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
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