Deaths on March 24

Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Died on March 24, 1915

Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (14 August 1848, in Dublin – 24 March 1915, in London),

born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer.

With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899).

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Events on 1915

12 Jan

Women's suffrage
The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
28 Jan

United States Coast Guard
An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
18 Mar

Battle of Gallipoli
World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
20 Mar

General relativity
Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
17 May

Herbert Henry Asquith
The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.

Deaths on March 24

Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Died on March 24, 1915

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Women's suffrage

United States Coast Guard

Battle of Gallipoli

General relativity

Herbert Henry Asquith