Page 8: Historical Events In March - 18

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.   

1967  Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42.   

1968  Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

1968  Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

1969  Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43   

1970  Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees   

1970  Mail service paralyzed by inaugural major postal strike   

1971  200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru   

1971  George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v S Africa 1924), dies   

1972  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   

1974  Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US.   

1974  David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87   

1975  Kurds end fight against Iraqi army   

1976  James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73.   

1977  In this year, Clash releases their inaugural recording "White Riot".   

1977  In the Congo, President Marien Ngouabi is assassinated   

1977  US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea and Cambodia.   

1977  Vietnam hands over MIA to US.   

1977  Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered.   

1978  250000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA.   

1978  Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death   

1978  Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84   

1979  Battles between Kurds and Iranians break in Sananday Iran.   

1980  Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50   

1980  Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79   

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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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on March - 18.   

1578  On March - 18 birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

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

1602  On March - 18 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  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.   

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on this day in history.   

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 March - 18.   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on March - 18.   

1584  On March - 18 ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53