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Events on the 18th of March in history

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18 Mar 2037 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
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18 Mar 0417 St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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18 Mar 0633 Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
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18 Mar 0731 St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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18 Mar 1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
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18 Mar 1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
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18 Mar 1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
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18 Mar 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
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18 Mar 1229 German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
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18 Mar 1241 First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
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18 Mar 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
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18 Mar 1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
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18 Mar 1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
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18 Mar 1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of the Netherlands
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18 Mar 1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
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18 Mar 1543 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
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18 Mar 1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
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18 Mar 1583 Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
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18 Mar 1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
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18 Mar 1644 The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
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18 Mar 1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
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18 Mar 1741 New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
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18 Mar 1754 Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
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18 Mar 1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
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18 Mar 1766 British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act
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18 Mar 1773 Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer" premieres in London
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18 Mar 1793 The first republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
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18 Mar 1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
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18 Mar 1810 "Converse, " 1st US opera, premieres in New York
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18 Mar 1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
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18 Mar 1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
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18 Mar 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
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18 Mar 1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
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18 Mar 1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
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18 Mar 1847 1st Dutch public telegram
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18 Mar 1848 March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
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18 Mar 1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
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18 Mar 1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
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18 Mar 1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
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18 Mar 1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miram
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18 Mar 1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
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18 Mar 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
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18 Mar 1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
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18 Mar 1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
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18 Mar 1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland, California)
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18 Mar 1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
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18 Mar 1871 Communards revolt in Paris France
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18 Mar 1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
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18 Mar 1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC
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18 Mar 1881 [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden)
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18 Mar 1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
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18 Mar 1891 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
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18 Mar 1892 Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
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18 Mar 1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
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18 Mar 1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
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18 Mar 1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
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18 Mar 1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
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18 Mar 1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
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18 Mar 1902 Sch
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18 Mar 1904 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
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18 Mar 1906 Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 11 meters at an altitude of one meter.
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18 Mar 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
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18 Mar 1910 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York NY
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18 Mar 1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
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18 Mar 1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
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18 Mar 1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
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18 Mar 1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
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18 Mar 1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
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18 Mar 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
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18 Mar 1915 Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War
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18 Mar 1918 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
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18 Mar 1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
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18 Mar 1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
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18 Mar 1919 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City
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18 Mar 1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
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18 Mar 1921 Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
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18 Mar 1921 The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
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18 Mar 1921 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
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18 Mar 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
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18 Mar 1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
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18 Mar 1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
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18 Mar 1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
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18 Mar 1925 (8) 60 mph tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, and Tn kills 689
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18 Mar 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
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18 Mar 1925 (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, & Tennessee killing 689
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18 Mar 1929 Dmitri Shostakovich's "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad
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18 Mar 1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
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18 Mar 1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US)
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18 Mar 1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
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18 Mar 1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
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18 Mar 1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
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18 Mar 1933 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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18 Mar 1933 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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18 Mar 1937 Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
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18 Mar 1937 A human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan, Italy.
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18 Mar 1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
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18 Mar 1937 The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
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18 Mar 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
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18 Mar 1938 Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
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18 Mar 1938 New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
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18 Mar 1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
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18 Mar 1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
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18 Mar 1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
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18 Mar 1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
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18 Mar 1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
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18 Mar 1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
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18 Mar 1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
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18 Mar 1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
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18 Mar 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
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18 Mar 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
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18 Mar 1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
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18 Mar 1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
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18 Mar 1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
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18 Mar 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
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18 Mar 1946 Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
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18 Mar 1948 France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
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18 Mar 1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
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18 Mar 1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
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18 Mar 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified
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18 Mar 1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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18 Mar 1950 "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
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18 Mar 1950 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
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18 Mar 1951 Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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18 Mar 1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
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18 Mar 1952 Communist offensive in Korea
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18 Mar 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
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18 Mar 1953 An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
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18 Mar 1953 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
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18 Mar 1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
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18 Mar 1953 KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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18 Mar 1953 National League approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
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18 Mar 1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
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18 Mar 1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus MS (NBC) begins
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18 Mar 1958 Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
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18 Mar 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
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18 Mar 1959 Boston Celtics' Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
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18 Mar 1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
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18 Mar 1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
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18 Mar 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of the USSR
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18 Mar 1962 The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
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18 Mar 1962 Algerian War ends after 7
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18 Mar 1963 "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
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18 Mar 1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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18 Mar 1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers
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18 Mar 1963 WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Mar 1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 220 performances
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18 Mar 1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
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18 Mar 1965 Rolling Stones fined
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18 Mar 1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
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18 Mar 1966 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 3 performances
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18 Mar 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
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18 Mar 1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
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18 Mar 1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil
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18 Mar 1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
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18 Mar 1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1
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18 Mar 1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil
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18 Mar 1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
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18 Mar 1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
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18 Mar 1968 WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Mar 1968 WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Mar 1969 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
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18 Mar 1969 The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
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18 Mar 1970 The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
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18 Mar 1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
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18 Mar 1970 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
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18 Mar 1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
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18 Mar 1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
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18 Mar 1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
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18 Mar 1971 In Peru a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
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18 Mar 1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
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18 Mar 1972 AIAW 1st basketball championship, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
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18 Mar 1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston University)
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18 Mar 1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 points in a game
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18 Mar 1972 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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18 Mar 1973 "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
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18 Mar 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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18 Mar 1974 Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
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18 Mar 1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
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18 Mar 1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
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18 Mar 1977 Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
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18 Mar 1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia
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18 Mar 1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
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18 Mar 1978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California
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18 Mar 1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
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18 Mar 1979 "On the 20th Century" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 460 performances
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18 Mar 1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
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18 Mar 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
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18 Mar 1980 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
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18 Mar 1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
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18 Mar 1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
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18 Mar 1982 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
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18 Mar 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
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18 Mar 1985 First episode of Neighbours broadcast.
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18 Mar 1985 Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
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18 Mar 1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
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18 Mar 1986 Exciting draw in final gives New South Wales the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
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18 Mar 1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
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18 Mar 1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
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18 Mar 1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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18 Mar 1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
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18 Mar 1989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
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18 Mar 1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 points in a game
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18 Mar 1989 Investor group led by George W Bush & Edward W Rose purchases controlling interest of Texas Rangers
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18 Mar 1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
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18 Mar 1990 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
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18 Mar 1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
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18 Mar 1990 1st free elections in German Democratic Republic, Conservatives beat Communists
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18 Mar 1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
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18 Mar 1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
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18 Mar 1990 Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
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18 Mar 1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
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18 Mar 1990 Loyola Marymount beats Michigan Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score
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18 Mar 1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
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18 Mar 1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
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18 Mar 1991 Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
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18 Mar 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
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18 Mar 1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 performances
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18 Mar 1992 In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.
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18 Mar 1992 Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
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18 Mar 1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
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18 Mar 1992 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
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18 Mar 1993 "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 performances
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18 Mar 1993 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in New York City
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18 Mar 1993 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record
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18 Mar 1993 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
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18 Mar 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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18 Mar 1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
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18 Mar 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
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18 Mar 1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
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18 Mar 1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
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18 Mar 1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
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18 Mar 1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16
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18 Mar 1996 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
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18 Mar 1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
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18 Mar 1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
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18 Mar 1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
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18 Mar 2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
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18 Mar 2015 The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
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