March 18
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After three months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland the 22nd (1885-89) and 24th president (1893-97) of the United States, the only president in U.S. history to 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, struck Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring another 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 the 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.
1962 - France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk in human history as he 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 5-month-old embargo against the United States that was sparked by American support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
1990 - The largest 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.
2000 - Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2004 - 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 - 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 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.
Birthdays
21 - Jada Facer (actress)
25 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
25 - Grace Elizabeth (model)
27 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
33 - Lily Collins (actress)
37 - Duane Henry (actor)
40 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
40 - Adam Pally (actor)
43 - Adam Levine (singer)
43 - Danneel Harris (actress)
46 - Emma Willis (actress)
47 - Sutton Foster (actress/singer)
48 - Philip Sweet (singer)
50 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
52 - Queen Latifah (actress/rapper)
53 - Michael Bergin (actor)
57 - David Cubitt (actor)
58 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
59 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
60 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
60 - James McMurtry (singer)
60 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
61 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
63 - Irene Cara (singer)
72 - Brad Dourif (actor)
95 - John Kander (composer)
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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 in a season.
1953 - National League owners approved the move of the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee; it was the first major move in the league since 1903.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of MLB players ended.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month retirement and returning to 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 of the Dallas Mavericks overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to move into 6th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.
2021 - The NBA said it was easing some of its health and safety protocols for individuals who were fully vaccinated.
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After three months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland the 22nd (1885-89) and 24th president (1893-97) of the United States, the only president in U.S. history to 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, struck Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring another 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 the 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.
1962 - France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
1965 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk in human history as he 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 5-month-old embargo against the United States that was sparked by American support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
1990 - The largest 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.
2000 - Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2004 - 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 - 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 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.
Birthdays
21 - Jada Facer (actress)
25 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
25 - Grace Elizabeth (model)
27 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
33 - Lily Collins (actress)
37 - Duane Henry (actor)
40 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
40 - Adam Pally (actor)
43 - Adam Levine (singer)
43 - Danneel Harris (actress)
46 - Emma Willis (actress)
47 - Sutton Foster (actress/singer)
48 - Philip Sweet (singer)
50 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
52 - Queen Latifah (actress/rapper)
53 - Michael Bergin (actor)
57 - David Cubitt (actor)
58 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
59 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
60 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
60 - James McMurtry (singer)
60 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
61 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
63 - Irene Cara (singer)
72 - Brad Dourif (actor)
95 - John Kander (composer)
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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 in a season.
1953 - National League owners approved the move of the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee; it was the first major move in the league since 1903.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1990 - The 32-day lockout of MLB players ended.
1991 - The Philadelphia 76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13.
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month retirement and returning to 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 of the Dallas Mavericks overtakes Wilt Chamberlain to move into 6th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 31,424 points.
2021 - The NBA said it was easing some of its health and safety protocols for individuals who were fully vaccinated.
