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

1965  Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45   

1966  On this day in history 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 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  Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42 on March - 18.   

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

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

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  Mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike on this day in history.   

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

1971  George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v S Africa 1924), dies on March - 18.   

1972  On this day in history 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 March - 18.   

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 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 March - 18 clash releases their first recording "White Riot"   

1977  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 vietnam hands over MIA to US   

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

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

1978  On this day in history pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death   

1978  Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.   

1395  On this day in history 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 March - 18.   

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 this day in history 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  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  On this day in history death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

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  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  On this day in history john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  On March - 18 death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

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