Historical Events
Flaubert Farewells Colet
Mar 6 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to the poet Louise Colet
Bill the Butcher
Mar 11 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners
Gesner Patents Kerosene
Mar 27 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
Famous Birthdays
Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
Mar 13 American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, born in Boston, Massachusetts
Andrew Mellon (1855-1937)
Mar 24 American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mar 24 Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman), born in Wittebergen, Eastern Cape (d. 1920)
- Mar 27 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), born in Dundee, Angus, Scotland (d. 1935)
- Mar 31 Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
Famous Deaths
Bill the Butcher (1821-1855)
Mar 8 American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys), dies of a gunshot wound at 33