March 1906 calendar

Events

• 03 Mar 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France.
• 05 Mar 1906 Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
• 06 Mar 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
• 07 Mar 1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor.
• 08 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ontario) in two games.
• 10 Mar 1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line).
• 12 Mar 1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast.
• 14 Mar 1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms.
• 15 Mar 1906 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd.
• 17 Mar 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker".
• 18 Mar 1906 Traian Vuia makes a short flight in a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
• 22 Mar 1906 First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
• 29 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in two games.
• 31 Mar 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.

Famous Birthday

• Adolf Eichmann

  German Lieutenant Colonel in the SS who drew up a "doomsday book" of 11 million Jews scheduled for extermination.

• Jean Carteret

  French poet, alchemist, graphologist, philosopher and astrologer; one of the earliest and most authoritative champions of the use of both...

• Jean Sablon

  French actor and singer.

• Lou Costello

  Paterson, New Jersey -- Comedian / actor (Abbott and Costello).

• Zino Davidoff
• Paul Rassinier

  French educator, a Professor of History.

• Jacques Companéez
• A J P Taylor

  English historian, (Born 1906).

• Émile Damais
• Guglielmo Segato

  Italian bicyclist, winner of a Gold Medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932.

• Marcel Hastir
• David Smith
• Pierre Billotte

  French Army officer and politician.

• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

  Japanese physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979).

• Barney Bigard
• Pee Wee Russell

  American musician (d. 1969).

• Jacques Larue
• Robert Allen

  Actor (Texas Rangers).

• John D

  Rockefeller III; billionaire philanthropist (oil).

• Pavel P

  Parenago Russian astronomer.

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Famous Deaths

• Susan B Anthony

  American women's suffrage activist (Born 1820).

• Slava Raskaj

  Croatian painter (Born 1878).

• Eugen Richter German Member of Parliament (Liberal)

  dies at age 67.

• Susan B[rownell] Anthony American suffragist

  dies at age 85.

• Alfred Gilpin Jones Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06)

  dies at age 81.

• Carlos Calvo Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause)

  dies at age 82.

• Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer

  dies at age 59.

• Betsy Perk [Christina E]

  journalist/writer/feminist, dies at age 73.

• Jose Maria de Pereda

  Spanish novelist (Born 1833).

• John McAllister Schofield

  former U.S.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - Good Night, Little Girl, Good Night
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - The Leader of the German Band
3. Byron G. Harlan - Daddy's Little Girl
4. Len Spencer & Ada Jones - The Original Cohens
5. Charles D'Almaine - Medley of Old-Time Reels