Historical Events In March - 18

1963  On March - 18 supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers  

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

1965  On March - 18 egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome.  

1965  Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination on March - 18.  

1965  On March - 18 soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space  

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 March - 18.  

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

1967  On March - 18 beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1  

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

1967  On March - 18 jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42  

1968  Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on this day in history.  

1968  Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85 on March - 18.  

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

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

1970  On March - 18 mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike  

1971  200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru on March - 18.  

1971  On this day in history 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 March - 18.  

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

1974  On this day in history most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US  

1974  On March - 18 david C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87  

1975  On March - 18 kurds end fight against Iraqi army  

1976  James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1977  Clash releases their first recording "White Riot" on March - 18.  

1977  On March - 18 in the Congo, President Marien Ngouabi is assassinated.  

1977  US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia on this day in history.  

1977  Vietnam hands over MIA to US on March - 18.  

1977  Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered on March - 18.  

1978  On this day in history 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 March - 18 faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84  

1979  Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran on March - 18.  

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

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)  

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on this day in history.  

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

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.  

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

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)  

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53