Today in History
18th March
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| 978 St. Edward the Martyr, King of the English, murdered at Corfe Castle on the orders of his stepmother who was eager to see her son Ethelred crowned. | ||
| 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 Roman Emperor Frederick II crowned himself king of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade. | ||
| 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) | ||
| 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born | ||
| 1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp | ||
| 1583 Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty | ||
| 1584 Ivan IV, first to assume the title of czar of Russia, died. He inaugurated domestic reforms and conducted successful campaigns against the Tartars, but his cruelty and oppression earned him the nickname Ivan the Terrible. | ||
| 1609 Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1776 Britain repealed the Stamp Act, despised in its colonies, but retained the right to impose taxes in the future. | ||
| 1834 In Dorset, England, six laborers were sentenced to seven years banishment to a penal colony in Australia for forming a trade union. They became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. | ||
| 1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass | ||
| 1848 A five-day revolution began in Milan against Austrian rule, forcing the governor, Joseph Radetzky, to withdraw from the city. | ||
| 1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo | ||
| 1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen governament resigns | ||
| 1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240 | ||
| 1871 The insurrection of Paris against the French government began. The rebels, known as the Communards, were finally defeated in May. | ||
| 1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG) | ||
| 1892 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) | ||
| 1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia | ||
| 1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering | ||
| 1913 King George I of Greece was assassinated at Salonika. | ||
| 1914 White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China | ||
| 1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles | ||
| 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed | ||
| 1916 The Battle of Naroch Lake, an attempt by the Russians to divert German forces from the Western front, began. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1921 Russian soldiers finally put down a rebellion by sailors at Kronstadt, the chief base of the Russian Baltic fleet near Petrograd. | ||
| 1922 Britain magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience | ||
| 1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain | ||
| 1937 Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die | ||
| 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties | ||
| 1940 Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agreed that Italy would eventually join the war. | ||
| 1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod | ||
| 1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm | ||
| 1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified. The text of the North Atlantic Treaty was published for the first time. | ||
| 1952 Communist offensive in Korea | ||
| 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee | ||
| 1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die | ||
| 1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan | ||
| 1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill | ||
| 1962 The war in Algeria ended when agreements were signed with the French leading to Algeria's independence. | ||
| 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR | ||
| 1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria | ||
| 1965 Ex-King Farouk I of Egypt died in exile in Italy. | ||
| 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk. | ||
| 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia | ||
| 1967 The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea. | ||
| 1970 Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed. | ||
| 1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru | ||
| 1972 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC | ||
| 1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US | ||
| 1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army | ||
| 1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia | ||
| 1978 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was found guilty of ordering the assassination of an opponent and sentenced to death. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1983 King Umberto II of Italy died in exile in Switzerland | ||
| 1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money | ||
| 1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth | ||
| 1990 Christian Democrats won a landslide victory in the first democratic elections held in East Germany. | ||
| 1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell | ||
| 1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion | ||
| 1993 After six days of deadlock, security forces stormed a hijacked Ethiopian airliner in the eastern town of Dire Dawa, killing two of the four hijackers. | ||
| 1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police | ||
| 1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy | ||
| 1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada | ||
| 1996 The Palestinian Authority renamed the Gaza Strip and West Bank as District of Gaza and the Northern Counties of Palestine. | ||
| 1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die | ||
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