Page 8: Historical Events In March - 18

1963  Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers on this day in history.   

1964  On this day in history norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69   

1965  Egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome on March - 18.   

1965  On March - 18 rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination   

1965  Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space on this day in history.   

1965  On March - 18 uSSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes)   

1965  Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1966  General Suharto forms government in Indonesia on this day in history.   

1966  Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 on March - 18.   

1967  Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1 on this day in history.   

1967  Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42   

1968  Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on March - 18.   

1968  On this day in history manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

1969  Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43 on this day in history.   

1970  Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees on March - 18.   

1970  On this day in history mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike   

1971  On this day in history 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru   

1971  On March - 18 george Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v S Africa 1924), dies   

1972  On March - 18 people's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China   

1973  Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1974  Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US on March - 18.   

1974  David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1975  On March - 18 kurds end fight against Iraqi army   

1976  On March - 18 james McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73   

1977  On this day in history clash releases their first recording "White Riot"   

1977  In the Congo, President Marien Ngouabi is assassinated on this day in history.   

1977  On this day in history uS restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia   

1977  Vietnam hands over MIA to US on this day in history.   

1977  On this day in history marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered   

1978  250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA on this day in history.   

1978  Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death on this day in history.   

1978  Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84 on March - 18.   

1979  On this day in history battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran   

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1380  On March - 18 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  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

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 this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  On this day in history birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

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

0978  On this day in history death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

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  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on this day in history.   

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 March - 18.