Page 8: Historical Events In March - 18

1963  Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers on March - 18.   

1964  On March - 18 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  On March - 18 soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space   

1965  USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes) on this day in history.   

1965  Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45 on March - 18.   

1966  On March - 18 general Suharto forms government in Indonesia   

1966  On this day in history scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1   

1967  Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1 on March - 18.   

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  On March - 18 congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

1968  Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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

1970  On this day in history cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees   

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  People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China on this day in history.   

1973  Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82 on March - 18.   

1974  Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US on this day in history.   

1974  On this day in history david C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87   

1975  On this day in history 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 March - 18 uS restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia   

1977  On March - 18 vietnam hands over MIA to US   

1977  On March - 18 marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered   

1978  On March - 18 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA   

1978  On March - 18 pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death   

1978  On this day in history faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84   

1979  On March - 18 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  On this day in history birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

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

1590  On this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

0235  On this day in history death of 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 on this day in history.   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on March - 18.   

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

1493  On this day in history 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  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.