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March 18, 1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
March 18, 1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
March 18, 1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
March 18, 1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16 days
March 18, 1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
March 18, 1994 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
March 18, 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
March 18, 1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
March 18, 1993 "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 556 performances
March 18, 1993 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in New York City
March 18, 1993 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
March 18, 1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 38 perf
March 18, 1992 Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
March 18, 1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
March 18, 1992 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
March 18, 1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
March 18, 1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
March 18, 1991 Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
March 18, 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
March 18, 1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
March 18, 1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
March 18, 1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
March 18, 1990 Biggest U.S. art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
March 18, 1990 Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
March 18, 1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
March 18, 1989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
March 18, 1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capitals record of 7 pts in a game
March 18, 1989 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
March 18, 1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica and Matthew)
March 18, 1987 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 18, 1986 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
March 18, 1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
March 18, 1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc. acquires ABC
March 18, 1985 Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle
March 18, 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
March 18, 1982 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
March 18, 1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
March 18, 1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
March 18, 1979 "On the 20th Century" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 460 performances
March 18, 1979 Battles between Kurds and Iranians break in Sananday Iran
March 18, 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
March 18, 1978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario California
March 18, 1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
March 18, 1977 Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
March 18, 1977 U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia
March 18, 1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S.
March 18, 1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
March 18, 1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
March 18, 1973 "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 296 performances
March 18, 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
March 18, 1972 AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
March 18, 1972 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
March 18, 1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U)
March 18, 1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game
March 18, 1971 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
March 18, 1970 Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
March 18, 1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) suspends broadcasting
March 18, 1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
March 18, 1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time
March 18, 1969 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 7 performances
March 18, 1968 Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
March 18, 1968 WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 18, 1968 WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 18, 1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
March 18, 1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil
March 18, 1966 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 3 performances
March 18, 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
March 18, 1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
March 18, 1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 220 performances
March 18, 1965 Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination
March 18, 1965 U.S.S.R. launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins)
March 18, 1963 "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 264 performances
March 18, 1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
March 18, 1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers
March 18, 1963 WGSF TV channel 28 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 18, 1962 Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
March 18, 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R.
March 18, 1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
March 18, 1959 Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
March 18, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
March 18, 1958 Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
March 18, 1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
March 18, 1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
March 18, 1953 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
March 18, 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
March 18, 1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
March 18, 1953 KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
March 18, 1953 NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
March 18, 1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
March 18, 1952 Communist offensive in Korea
March 18, 1951 Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
March 18, 1950 "Touch and Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 176 performances
March 18, 1950 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
March 18, 1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, treaty ratified
March 18, 1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting
March 18, 1948 France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
March 18, 1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
March 18, 1945 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin
March 18, 1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
March 18, 1945 U.S. Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
March 18, 1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
March 18, 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store
March 18, 1943 James Oglethorpe (U.S.) and Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed and sinks
March 18, 1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
March 18, 1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
March 18, 1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
March 18, 1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain
March 18, 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
March 18, 1938 New York 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
March 18, 1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies
March 18, 1937 Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
March 18, 1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
March 18, 1933 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
March 18, 1933 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
March 18, 1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick
March 18, 1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
March 18, 1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
March 18, 1929 Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad
March 18, 1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
March 18, 1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience
March 18, 1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte North Carolina begins radio transmissions
March 18, 1921 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
March 18, 1921 Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
March 18, 1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
March 18, 1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
March 18, 1918 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
March 18, 1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
March 18, 1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
March 18, 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
March 18, 1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
March 18, 1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
March 18, 1910 1st opera by an U.S. composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York City
March 18, 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
March 18, 1904 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
March 18, 1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
March 18, 1902 Schonberg's "Verklarte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
March 18, 1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
March 18, 1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
March 18, 1895 200 blacks leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
March 18, 1892 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
March 18, 1891 Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
March 18, 1890 1st U.S. state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
March 18, 1881 Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)
March 18, 1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington D.C.
March 18, 1871 Communards revolt in Paris
March 18, 1870 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California
March 18, 1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, Alabama
March 18, 1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
March 18, 1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
March 18, 1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
March 18, 1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
March 18, 1850 Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
March 18, 1847 1st Dutch public telegram
March 18, 1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
March 18, 1834 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)
March 18, 1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
March 18, 1813 David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas
March 18, 1810 "Converse," 1st U.S. opera, premieres in New York
March 18, 1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
March 18, 1773 Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
March 18, 1766 Britain repeals the Stamp Act
March 18, 1754 Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
March 18, 1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
March 18, 1583 Dutch States General and Anjou sign treaty
March 18, 1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
March 18, 1541 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)
March 18, 1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
March 18, 1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
March 18, 1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
March 18, 1229 German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
March 18, 1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England
March 18, 1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
March 18, 1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
March 18, 731 St. Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
March 18, 417 St. Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope



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