Page 7: Historical Events In March - 18

1940  In the Brenner Pass in the Alps, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini, leader of Fascist Italy, meet to discuss Italy’s imminent entrance into World War II in an alliance with Germany   

1940  Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain   

1942  2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out   

1942  Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters.   

1943  Red Army evacuates Belgorod.   

1943  S.S. James Oglethorpe (US) and S.S. Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed and sunk.   

1943  James Oglethorpe (US) and Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed and sinks.   

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  France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria.   

1963  Supreme Court's Miranda Decision defendants must have lawyers   

1963  Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers.   

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1380  On this day in history birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.   

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

1548  On March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1590  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.   

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.   

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.   

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on March - 18.   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on March - 18.   

1583  On this day in history death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on this day in history.