West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 8 March 1935, page 20


ANNIVERSARIES.

William m. died on March 8, ,1702, from- the effects of a fall from hto horse.

William Dampier, the buccaneer, who subsequently held a commission hi the Royal Navy and was' the first Englishman to explore the * western- coast of Australia, died- in London on March 8, 1715. Giuseppe Mario Crescembinl, Italian writer and most influential literary critic of his day, died, soon after becoming a Jesuit, on March 8, .1728. Karl Ferdinand von -3rafe, German surgeon, who. was superin^tendent of German military hospitals during the Napoleonic war, and who Is regarded as the father of modern plastic surgery, was born at Warsaw on March 8, 1787. Hans Frederick Gadow, the Anglo-German zoologist who lectured on zoology In the University, of Cambridge, and who specialised in amphibia and reptiles, was born in Pomeranla on March 8,1855. ' Severe hurricanes in north Queensland on March 8, 1899, caused the loss of over 40 pearling luggers and other vessels, and the death of over 200 people. On March fe, 1915, a seripus political crisis' occurred in Greece, when M. Zaimis declined the task of forming a Cabinet, while the Greek Parliament and people declared In support of M. Venizelos, who had resigned office as Premier because of King Constantine's unwillingness to declare war cm the Central Powers as an ally ofvthe Triple Entente. On March 8, 1916, the French repulsed a great German infantry attack west of the Meuse in the region of Bethincourt, and a French air squadron consisting of 18 machines dropped 124 bombs on the Meti-Sablon railway station. — -On March 8, 1918, during a Gotha raid on Paris, 13 persons were killed and 50 injured.