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March 18
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, the British repealed the Stamp Act.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.)
1925 - The most violent single tornado in U.S. history, the "Tri-State Tornado," hit Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring more than 13,000.
1937 - In America's worst school disaster, nearly 300 people, most of them children, were killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War Relocation Authority, which was put in charge of interning Japanese-Americans, with Milton S. Eisenhower (the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower) as its director.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Gideon v. Wainwright that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants in felony cases who could not afford to hire an attorney of their own.
1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
1967 - The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea.
1974 - Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the United States that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1990 - The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
2004 - A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
2005 - After a long legal battle in a right-to-die case, Terry Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. (She died 13 days later.)
2016 - Police in Brussels captured Europe's most wanted fugitive, Salah Abdeslam, who was the prime suspect in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks.
2017 - Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller behind such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven," died at age 90.
2018 - A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle; Uber suspended its autonomous vehicle testing program in Arizona, California, Pittsburgh and Toronto after the crash.
2020 - The U.S. and Canada agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Birthdays
23 - Jada Facer (actress)
26 - Abigail Cowen (actress)
27 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
28 - Eva Noblezada (actress)
29 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
31 - Solo Sikoa (professional wrestler)
31 - Eliana Ghen (actress)
35 - Lily Collins (actress)
42 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
45 - Adam Levine (singer)
45 - Danneel Harris (actress)
49 - Sutton Foster (actress)
50 - Philip Sweet (singer)
52 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
54 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
55 - Michael Bergin (actor)
59 - David Cubitt (actor)
60 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
61 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
62 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
62 - James McMurtry (singer)
62 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
63 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
74 - Brad Dourif (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 18
1892 - Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston, announced that he had purchased a trophy to be presented to the hockey champion of Canada.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1953 - The National League owners approved the move of the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee. It was the first major league franchise shift since 1903.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended.
1990 - In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being hit with a pitch.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces the end of his 17-month retirement from basketball and will re-join the Chicago Bulls.
2002 - Brittanie Cecil died two days short of her 14th birthday after being hit in the head by a puck at a game between the host Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames; it was apparently the first such fan fatality in NHL history.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki moves past Wilt Chamberlain into sixth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, the British repealed the Stamp Act.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.)
1925 - The most violent single tornado in U.S. history, the "Tri-State Tornado," hit Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring more than 13,000.
1937 - In America's worst school disaster, nearly 300 people, most of them children, were killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War Relocation Authority, which was put in charge of interning Japanese-Americans, with Milton S. Eisenhower (the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower) as its director.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Gideon v. Wainwright that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants in felony cases who could not afford to hire an attorney of their own.
1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
1967 - The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea.
1974 - Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the United States that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1990 - The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
2004 - A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
2005 - After a long legal battle in a right-to-die case, Terry Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. (She died 13 days later.)
2016 - Police in Brussels captured Europe's most wanted fugitive, Salah Abdeslam, who was the prime suspect in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks.
2017 - Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller behind such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven," died at age 90.
2018 - A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle; Uber suspended its autonomous vehicle testing program in Arizona, California, Pittsburgh and Toronto after the crash.
2020 - The U.S. and Canada agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Birthdays
23 - Jada Facer (actress)
26 - Abigail Cowen (actress)
27 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
28 - Eva Noblezada (actress)
29 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
31 - Solo Sikoa (professional wrestler)
31 - Eliana Ghen (actress)
35 - Lily Collins (actress)
42 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
45 - Adam Levine (singer)
45 - Danneel Harris (actress)
49 - Sutton Foster (actress)
50 - Philip Sweet (singer)
52 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
54 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
55 - Michael Bergin (actor)
59 - David Cubitt (actor)
60 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
61 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
62 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
62 - James McMurtry (singer)
62 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
63 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
74 - Brad Dourif (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 18
1892 - Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston, announced that he had purchased a trophy to be presented to the hockey champion of Canada.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.
1953 - The National League owners approved the move of the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee. It was the first major league franchise shift since 1903.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended.
1990 - In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being hit with a pitch.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces the end of his 17-month retirement from basketball and will re-join the Chicago Bulls.
2002 - Brittanie Cecil died two days short of her 14th birthday after being hit in the head by a puck at a game between the host Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames; it was apparently the first such fan fatality in NHL history.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki moves past Wilt Chamberlain into sixth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.