Page 7: Historical Events In March - 18

1944  2500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL department store   

1944  Nazi Germany occupies Hungary.   

1944  Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79.   

1945  1250 US bombers attacks Berlin   

1945  Maurice "Rocket" Richard is recorded as becoming the inaugural NHLer to score 50 goals.   

1945  US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu.   

1945  William Grover-Williams, British racing driver.   

1947  William Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, died on this day   

1948  France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels   

1948  Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting.   

1949  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified   

1949  NATO set up by seven European countries.   

1949  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified   

1950  "Touch and Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances.   

1951  In this year, Pat O'Sullivan claims LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.   

1952  Communist offensive in Korea.   

1952  inaugural plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia).   

1953  Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die   

1954  Walter Mead, cricketer (one Test for England 1899), dies.   

1955  I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan.   

1956  Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85   

1959  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaiian statehood bill into law, approving the entrance of Hawaii into the United States pending approval by the electorate of the Pacific Ocean island chain.   

1961  Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced.   

1962  Algerian War ends after 7½ years of fighting (250000 die), Ben Bella flees   

1963  Supreme Court's Miranda Decision defendants must have lawyers   

1964  Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69.   

1965  Egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome   

1965  Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is inaugural man to walk in space   

1965  USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes inaugural spacewalk (20 minutes)   

1965  Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45.   

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 off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK and spills oil.   

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1380  Liduina van schiedam: Dutch "christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John holland: 2nd duke of exeter, english military leader   

1496  Mary tudor: Daughter of henry vii of england and queen consort of louis xii of france   

1548  Cornelis ketel: Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-hercule de valois: French duke of anjou/brabant   

1578  Adam elsheimer: German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de faria e sousa: Portuguese historian and poet   

1602  Jacques de billy: French mathematician   

0235  Marcus aurelius alexander: Syrian emperor of rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward: The martyr, king of anglo-saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  Death of Honorius iii: [cencio savelli], pope (1216-27),   

1314  Death of Jacques de molay: The last grand master of order of knights,   

1493  Death of John of lannoy: Flemish governor/viceroy of neth/zealand,   

1582  Jean jaurequi: Basque murderer of willem of orange, lynched   

1583  King magnus of livonia: King magnus of livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan iv: The terrible, russian tsar (1547-84),