March 18
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV (Ivan "The Terrible") died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland, the only 22nd and 24th president of the United States and the only president to ever serve non-consecutive terms, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience.
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.
1931 - Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
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 held a meeting at Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in 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, put in charge.
1962 - France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.
1963 - The Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
1965 - The first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
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 embargo against the United States.
1990 - The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
1996 - Rejecting an insanity defense, a jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, convicted John C. Salvi III of murdering two women in attacks at two Boston-area abortion clinics in December 1994. (Salvi later committed suicide in his prison cell.)
2000 - Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2004 - A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
2005 - After a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama confronted America's racial divide with a speech in Philadelphia. It was prompted by incindiary racial remarks made by Obama's African-American pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
2010 - President Barack Obama signed into law a $38 billion jobs bill containing a modest mix of tax breaks and spending designed to encourage the private sector to start hiring again.
2011 - President Barack Obama demanded that Moammar Gadhafi halt all military attacks on civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down, the United States would join other nations in launching military action against him.
2016 - A jury in St. Petersburg, Florida sided with former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, awarding him $115 million in compensatory damages in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media. (Three days later, the jury awarded $25 million in punitive damages; Gawker, which ended up going bankrupt, finally settled with Hogan for $31 million.)
2017 - Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll’s founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” ″Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” died at his home west of St. Louis at age 90.
2018 - Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing reelection victory for six more years as Russia’s president.
2020 - The U.S. and Canada agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel. Describing himself as a “wartime president,” President Donald Trump said he would invoke emergency powers to let the government steer production of needed medical supplies by private companies. Trump signed a $100 billion aid package to boost testing for the coronavirus and guarantee sick leave to workers who become ill.
Birthdays
20 - Jada Facer (actress)
24 - Ciara Bravo (actor)
24 - Grace Elizabeth (model)
26 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
28 - Eliana Ghen (actress)
32 - Lily Collins (actress)
36 - Darnell Nicole (model)
36 - Duane Henry (actor)
39 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
39 - Adam Pally (actor)
42 - Danneel Harris (actress)
42 - Adam Levine (singer)
46 - Sutton Foster (actress)
49 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
51 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
52 - Michael Bergin (actor)
56 - David Cubitt (actor)
57 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
58 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
59 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
59 - James McMurtry (singer)
59 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
60 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
71 - 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 to use the scoreboard as the official time.
1985 - MLB Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of Major League Baseball players came to an end.
1990 - In Tampa, Florida, a Little League baseball player was killed after being hit by a pitch.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month retirement and returning to the NBA.
2002 - Brittanie Cecil became the first NHL fan fatality directly related to action on the ice. She had been hit by a puck during a game two days before between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames. Her death was caused by a rare injury caused when her head snapped back after being hit.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks moves past Wilt Chamberlain into sixth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV (Ivan "The Terrible") died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland, the only 22nd and 24th president of the United States and the only president to ever serve non-consecutive terms, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey.
1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience.
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.
1931 - Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
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 held a meeting at Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in 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, put in charge.
1962 - France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.
1963 - The Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
1965 - The first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
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 embargo against the United States.
1990 - The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
1996 - Rejecting an insanity defense, a jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, convicted John C. Salvi III of murdering two women in attacks at two Boston-area abortion clinics in December 1994. (Salvi later committed suicide in his prison cell.)
2000 - Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2004 - A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
2005 - After a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama confronted America's racial divide with a speech in Philadelphia. It was prompted by incindiary racial remarks made by Obama's African-American pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
2010 - President Barack Obama signed into law a $38 billion jobs bill containing a modest mix of tax breaks and spending designed to encourage the private sector to start hiring again.
2011 - President Barack Obama demanded that Moammar Gadhafi halt all military attacks on civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down, the United States would join other nations in launching military action against him.
2016 - A jury in St. Petersburg, Florida sided with former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, awarding him $115 million in compensatory damages in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media. (Three days later, the jury awarded $25 million in punitive damages; Gawker, which ended up going bankrupt, finally settled with Hogan for $31 million.)
2017 - Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll’s founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” ″Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” died at his home west of St. Louis at age 90.
2018 - Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing reelection victory for six more years as Russia’s president.
2020 - The U.S. and Canada agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel. Describing himself as a “wartime president,” President Donald Trump said he would invoke emergency powers to let the government steer production of needed medical supplies by private companies. Trump signed a $100 billion aid package to boost testing for the coronavirus and guarantee sick leave to workers who become ill.
Birthdays
20 - Jada Facer (actress)
24 - Ciara Bravo (actor)
24 - Grace Elizabeth (model)
26 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
28 - Eliana Ghen (actress)
32 - Lily Collins (actress)
36 - Darnell Nicole (model)
36 - Duane Henry (actor)
39 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
39 - Adam Pally (actor)
42 - Danneel Harris (actress)
42 - Adam Levine (singer)
46 - Sutton Foster (actress)
49 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
51 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
52 - Michael Bergin (actor)
56 - David Cubitt (actor)
57 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
58 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
59 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
59 - James McMurtry (singer)
59 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
60 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
71 - 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 to use the scoreboard as the official time.
1985 - MLB Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of Major League Baseball players came to an end.
1990 - In Tampa, Florida, a Little League baseball player was killed after being hit by a pitch.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month retirement and returning to the NBA.
2002 - Brittanie Cecil became the first NHL fan fatality directly related to action on the ice. She had been hit by a puck during a game two days before between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames. Her death was caused by a rare injury caused when her head snapped back after being hit.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks moves past Wilt Chamberlain into sixth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.