today.nukz.net: Almanac March 24 :: Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) Suffragist, Native American activist, abolitionist, freethinker, and author

Events

1401 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1829 – Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1860 – Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairo) Ii Naosuke
1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside.
1923 – Greece becomes a republic.
1927 – Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1934 – U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 – Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground.
1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 – The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

Births

1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 – John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1725 – Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1740 – John Antes, American composer (d. 1811)
1755 – Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827)
1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d. 1830)
1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer, considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music (d. 1835)
1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
1820 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 – Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette (d. 1898)
1828 – Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
1834 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
1835 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)
1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 – Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 – Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)
1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920)
1874 – Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1874 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972)
1886 – Athenagoras I, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 – Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1890 – Agnes Macphail, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 1954)
1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
1901 – Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
1910 – Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1912 – Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
1915 – "Gorgeous" George Wagner, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1916 – Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (d. 2010)
1917 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917 – Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)
1921 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
1922 – Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
1923 – Michael Legat, England writer (d. 2011)
1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 – Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 – Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
1926 – Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin
1927 – Martin Walser, German author
1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist
1930 – David Dacko, Central African Republician politician (d. 2003)
1930 – Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003)
1933 – William Smith, American actor
1935 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
1935 – Carol Kaye, American musician
1936 – David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)
1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938 – David Irving, British historian
1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
1940 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945 – Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (d. 2008)
1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football coach
1947 – Christine Gregoire, American politician
1947 – Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
1948 – Lee Oskar, Danish musician (War)
1949 – Nick Lowe, British musician
1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer
1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian musician (April Wine)
1949 – Tabitha Spruce, American writer, poet and activist
1950 – Gary Wichard, American professional sports agent (d. 2011)
1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer
1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
1951 – Dougie Thomson, British bassist
1953 – Anita L. Allen, American law professor
1953 – Louie Anderson, American comedian
1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor
1954 – Donna Pescow, American actress
1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman
1957 – Gilles Baril, Canadian politician
1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach
1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer
1960 – Kelly LeBrock, American actress
1960 – Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 – Nena, German pop singer
1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver
1961 – Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1962 – Star Jones, American television personality
1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer goalkeeper
1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 – Patrick Scales, British-German electric bass guitar player
1965 – Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 – Mark Calaway, an American professional wrestler
1969 – Houston, American pornographic actress
1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player
1971 – Megyn Price, American actress
1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 – Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor
1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer
1973 – Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
1974 – Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 – Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer and actress
1976 – Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 – Corneille, Rwandan/Canadian singer
1977 – Angellica Bell, English TV presenter
1977 – Olivia Burnette, American actress
1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 – Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1978 – Kaori Mochida, Japanese singer (Every Little Thing)
1979 – Lake Bell, American actress
1979 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 – Mike Adams, American football player
1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1981 – Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
1981 – Mark Looms, Dutch footballer
1981 – Gary Paffett, British racing driver
1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
1982 – Christian Hug, German rugby player
1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 – Nivea, American singer
1982 – Jack Swagger, American professional wrestler
1982 – Epico, American professional wrestler
1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1983 – Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-born Cameroonian footballer
1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer (2NE1)
1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1985 – Amanda Lameche, Swedish singer
1986 – Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 – Tony McMahon, English footballer
1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese adult video actress
1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1989 – Aziz Shavershian, Australian bodybuilder (d. 2011)
1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian/New Zealand actress
1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player
1998 – Isabel Suckling, British Choirgirl

Deaths

809 – Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
1284 – King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
1381 – Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1558 – Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
1773 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1905 – Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1926 – Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese nationalist (b. 1872)
1940 – Édouard Branly, French inventor and physicist (b. 1844)
1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (b. 1903)
1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1962 – Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1976 – Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
1991 – Sir John Kerr, Australian Governor-General (b. 1914)
1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (b. 1905)
1993 – John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
1995 – Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
1997 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1997 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 – Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 – Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2009 – George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
2010 – Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)