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03/18/1897
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Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1898
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Otto Jochum, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1899
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Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
Type: Event
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03/18/1899
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Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
Type: Birth
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03/18/1899
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Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
Type: Death
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03/18/1899
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Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
Type: Death
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03/18/1900
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Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
Type: Event
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03/18/1900
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Ant˘nio Nobre, Portuguese poet (S˘ [Lonely]), dies at 32
Type: Death
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03/18/1901
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Piotr Perkowski, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1902
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Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
Type: Event
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03/18/1902
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Sch”nberg's "Verkl„rte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
Type: Event
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03/18/1904
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1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
Type: Event
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03/18/1905
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John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1905
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Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1905
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Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1906
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Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1907
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Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1908
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Louis Gaste, songwriter
Type: Birth
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03/18/1909
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Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
Type: Event
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03/18/1910
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1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
Type: Event
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03/18/1910
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Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1911
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North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
Type: Event
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03/18/1911
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Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1913
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Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine
Type: Birth
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03/18/1913
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Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1913
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William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author
Type: Birth
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03/18/1913
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George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
Type: Death
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03/18/1914
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White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
Type: Event
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03/18/1914
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Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1914
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James Pack, naval officer museum curator
Type: Birth
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03/18/1915
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Failed British attack in Dardanelles
Type: Event
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03/18/1915
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French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
Type: Event
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03/18/1915
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Richard Thomas Condon, author
Type: Birth
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03/18/1916
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Louis Toebosch, composer
Type: Birth
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03/18/1917
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William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
Type: Death
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03/18/1918
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Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
Type: Event
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03/18/1918
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Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
Type: Event
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03/18/1918
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Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
Type: Death
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03/18/1919
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Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
Type: Event
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03/18/1919
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Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1919
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Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
Type: Birth
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03/18/1920
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Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
Type: Event
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03/18/1920
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Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
Type: Birth
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03/18/1920
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John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Poland, Pope (1978- )
Type: Birth
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03/18/1921
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2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
Type: Event
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03/18/1921
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Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
Type: Event
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03/18/1922
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1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
Type: Event
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03/18/1922
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Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
Type: Event
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03/18/1922
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Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
Type: Event
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03/18/1922
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WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
Type: Event
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