What Happened In March 1884 - Historical Events 1884 March

Historical Events for March, 1884

13th » The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
27th » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would Cincinnati riots of 1884 named riot and destroy the courthouse.

4th » Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958)
6th » Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (d. 1959)
9th » Johan Salonen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1938)
11th » Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister (d. 1974)
13th » Hugh Walpole, English author (d. 1941)
16th » Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (d. 1960)
17th » Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (d. 1934)
18th » Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
22nd » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American politician (d. 1951)
23rd » Joseph Boxhall, English 4th officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1967)
24th » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
24th » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)
25th » Georges Imbert, French chemist (d. 1950)
26th » Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
27th » Gordon Thomson (rower) or Gordon Thomson, English rower (d. 1953)
31st » Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)