March 1910 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1910 An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history.
• 02 Mar 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
• 05 Mar 1910 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1.
• 08 Mar 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes first licensed female pilot.
• 09 Mar 1910 The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 10 Mar 1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing.
• 11 Mar 1910 Jack Hobbs first Test ton (187 versus South Africa), his only Test hit wicket.
• 12 Mar 1910 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3.
• 14 Mar 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
• 16 Mar 1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona.
• 17 Mar 1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands.
• 26 Mar 1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick.
• 27 Mar 1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Okoritofulpos, Hungary, kills 312.
• 28 Mar 1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France
• 30 Mar 1910 The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
• 31 Mar 1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.

Famous Birthday

• Akira Kurosawa

  Japanese director and producer, an artist, painter and author.

• David Niven

  English-Swiss actor singer and producer (d. 1983).

• Samuel Barber

  West Chester, Pennsylvania -- Composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal).

• Molly Weir
• Paul Guth

  French writer.

• Valentin Angelmann

  French boxer; World Flyweight Champion 1936.

• Magda Olivero

  Italian soprano (d. 2014).

• Jacinta Marto

  witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (Born 1910).

• Julio Gallo

  American vintner, a multimillionaire entrepreneur.

• George van Tassel
• Tancredo Neves

  Brazilian politician, lawyer, public attorney, Secretary of Justice, Senator, P.M.

• Ennio Flaiano

  Italian screenwriter and journalist (d. 1972).

• Helmut Knochen

  German Nazi Commander of Security Police in occupied France 1940-44.

• Francis Suttill

  French secret agent.

• Mary Wong (actress)
• Roger Bodart
• Claire Trevor

  American actress and singer (d. 2000).

• Jacques Chailley

  composer.

• Sammy Kaye
• Archer Martin

  English chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002).

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Famous Deaths

• Alexander Emanuel Agassiz

  American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (Born 1835).

• Auguste Charlois

  French astronomer (Born 1864).

• Edouard Judas Colonne

  French violinist (Born 1838).

• David Josiah Brewer

  U.

• David Duffle Wood composer

  dies at age 72.

• Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke composer

  dies at age 85.

• Karl Lueger Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna

  dies at age 65.

• Joaquin Valverde composer

  dies at age 64.

• Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor

  dies.

• Knut Angstrom

  Swedish physicist (Born 1857).

• Nadar

  French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist.

• Carl Reinecke

  German pianist, conductor and composer (Born 1824).

• An Jung-geun

  Korean general who fought for independence of Korea(executed) (Born 1879).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Will Oakland - I'm Tired of Living Without You
2. Reed Miller - Roses in June
3. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Emmaline
4. Eddie Morton - You Ain't Talking to Me
5. Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson - That Would be Lovely