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Events from History on March 18

1123 : 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1167 : Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 : Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 : German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1438 : Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 : Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1532 : English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1541 : Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)
1582 : Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 : Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1673 : Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1754 : Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1766 : Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1773 : Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
1793 : 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1810 : "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
1813 : David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 : Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 : 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
1835 : Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
1847 : 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 : Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1858 : Dutch Van der Brugghen govt resigns
1859 : Vera Cruz besieged by Miram¢n (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1864 : Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
1865 : Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
1865 : Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 : 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)
1871 : Communards revolt in Paris
1877 : President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC
1881 : Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)
1890 : 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1891 : Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1895 : 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
1899 : Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1900 : Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 : Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1902 : Sch”nberg's "Verkl„rte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
1904 : 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
1909 : Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1910 : 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
1911 : North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1914 : White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
1915 : Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 : French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1918 : Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 : Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1919 : Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1920 : Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 : 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 : Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1922 : 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 : Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1922 : Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1922 : WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
1925 : (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689
1929 : Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad
1931 : 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1931 : Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1933 : Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1933 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1937 : Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1938 : Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
1938 : NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
1938 : Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
1940 : Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1942 : 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout
1942 : Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
1942 : with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1943 : James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks
1943 : Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 : 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm
1944 : Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1944 : clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store
1945 : 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 : US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1948 : France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
1948 : Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1949 : NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1949 : WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 : "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1950 : CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1952 : 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila)
1952 : Communist offensive in Korea
1953 : 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
1953 : Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1953 : Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1953 : KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 : NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
1955 : I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1957 : WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
1958 : Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
1959 : Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
1959 : President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1961 : Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1962 : Algerian War ends after 7« yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 : Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR
1963 : "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
1963 : France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 : Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers
1963 : WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 : "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances
1965 : Rolling Stones fined œ5 each for public urination
1965 : USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins)
1966 : "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
1966 : General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1966 : Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1967 : Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1967 : Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock & spills oil
1968 : Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1968 : WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 : WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 : "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 : -25) US Postal begins strike
1970 : Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1970 : KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1970 : Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 : NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
1971 : 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
1972 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 : Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game
1973 : "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
1974 : Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1975 : Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 : Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
1977 : US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1977 : Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 : 250,000 attend rock concert Calif Jam II in Ontario Calif
1978 : Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1979 : "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1979 : Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1980 : Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1982 : Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
1985 : Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
1985 : Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
1986 : Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
1986 : Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
1987 : Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
1987 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 : 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1989 : California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1989 : Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a game
1989 : Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
1989 : in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1990 : 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990 : A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
1990 : Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
1991 : Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
1991 : Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
1991 : Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1992 : "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf
1992 : Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 : Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
1992 : Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
1993 : "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs
1993 : Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
1993 : Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
1994 : South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
1994 : Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 : Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 : STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16« days
1995 : Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
1996 : 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1997 : Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die

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