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03/18/1830
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Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
Type: Birth
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03/18/1834
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1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
Type: Event
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03/18/1835
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Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
Type: Event
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03/18/1837
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Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1838
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Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
Type: Birth
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03/18/1838
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Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1839
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Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Type: Birth
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03/18/1843
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Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1844
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1847
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1st Dutch public telegram
Type: Event
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03/18/1848
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Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1850
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Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
Type: Event
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03/18/1858
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Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1858
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Dutch Van der Brugghen govt resigns
Type: Event
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03/18/1859
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Vera Cruz besieged by MiramĒn (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
Type: Event
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03/18/1864
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Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1864
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Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
Type: Event
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03/18/1865
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Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
Type: Event
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03/18/1865
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Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
Type: Event
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03/18/1866
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Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1866
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John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1867
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Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1869
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[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1870
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1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)
Type: Event
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03/18/1870
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Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
Type: Death
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03/18/1871
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Communards revolt in Paris
Type: Event
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03/18/1872
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Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1875
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Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
Type: Death
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03/18/1876
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F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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03/18/1877
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Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1877
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President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC
Type: Event
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03/18/1880
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Christopher K H de Nere tot Babberich, cartoonist
Type: Birth
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03/18/1881
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Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1881
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Paul Le Flem, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1881
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Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)
Type: Event
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03/18/1882
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Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1886
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Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist
Type: Birth
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03/18/1886
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Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91
Type: Death
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03/18/1886
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Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1886
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Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven and Earth)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1888
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Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor
Type: Birth
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03/18/1889
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F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
Type: Birth
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03/18/1889
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William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
Type: Death
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03/18/1890
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Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
Type: Birth
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03/18/1890
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1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
Type: Event
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03/18/1891
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Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
Type: Event
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03/18/1892
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Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1892
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Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
Type: Event
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03/18/1893
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Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1895
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200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
Type: Event
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