Top Historical Events That Happened on 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  Death of Marcus aurelius alexander: Syrian emperor of rome (222-235), murdered   

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

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

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

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

1582  Death of 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),