WillDekkard
03-18-2010, 04:24 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 18th
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* 37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
* 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
* 1241 Krakσw is ravaged by Mongols.
* 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
* 1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany.
* 1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
* 1673 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
* 1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
* 1793 The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
* 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
* 1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
* 1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
* 1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
* 1893 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; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
* 1906 Traian Vuia flies the first self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft in Europe.
* 1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
* 1915 World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
* 1921 The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
* 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
* 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
* 1937 The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
* 1937 The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
* 1938 Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
* 1940 World War II: Axis Powers 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.
* 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
* 1945 World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
* 1946 Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
* 1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
* 1953 An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
* 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
* 1962 The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
* 1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
* 1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
* 1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
* 1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
* 1971 A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
* 1974 Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
* 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.
* 1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
* 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, Massachusetts.
* 1996 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
* 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 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
* 2003 FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
* 2003 British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
* 2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.
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- March 18th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
* 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
* 1241 Krakσw is ravaged by Mongols.
* 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
* 1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany.
* 1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
* 1673 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
* 1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
* 1793 The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
* 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
* 1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
* 1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
* 1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
* 1893 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; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
* 1906 Traian Vuia flies the first self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft in Europe.
* 1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
* 1915 World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
* 1921 The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
* 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
* 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
* 1937 The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
* 1937 The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
* 1938 Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
* 1940 World War II: Axis Powers 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.
* 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
* 1945 World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
* 1946 Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
* 1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
* 1953 An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
* 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
* 1962 The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
* 1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
* 1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
* 1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
* 1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
* 1971 A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
* 1974 Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
* 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.
* 1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
* 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, Massachusetts.
* 1996 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
* 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 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
* 2003 FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
* 2003 British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
* 2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.
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