Page 8: Historical Events In March - 18

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

1964  Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69 on March - 18.   

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

1965  On this day in history rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination   

1965  On this day in history soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space   

1965  USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes) on March - 18.   

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

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

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

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 this day in history.   

1970  Mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike on March - 18.   

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 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 March - 18.   

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

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

1977  On March - 18 clash releases their first recording "White Riot"   

1977  In the Congo, President Marien Ngouabi is assassinated on March - 18.   

1977  On March - 18 uS restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia   

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

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  Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death on March - 18.   

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  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on March - 18.   

1395  On this day in history birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

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  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

1556  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on March - 18.   

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

1314  On this day in history jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

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