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  On this day in history egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome.   

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  On this day in history uSSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes)   

1965  Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45 on this day in history.   

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

1966  On March - 18 scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1   

1967  Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1 on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil   

1967  Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42 on March - 18.   

1968  Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve on this day in history.   

1968  On March - 18 manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85   

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  On March - 18 mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike   

1971  On this day in history 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru   

1971  On March - 18 george Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v S Africa 1924), dies   

1972  On this day in history people's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China   

1973  On March - 18 lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82   

1974  Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US on March - 18.   

1974  On this day in history david C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87   

1975  Kurds end fight against Iraqi army on this day in history.   

1976  On this day in history james McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73   

1977  On this day in history clash releases their first recording "White Riot"   

1977  In the Congo, President Marien Ngouabi is assassinated on this day in history.   

1977  US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia on March - 18.   

1977  On March - 18 vietnam hands over MIA to US   

1977  On March - 18 marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered   

1978  On this day in history 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA   

1978  On March - 18 pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death   

1978  Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84 on March - 18.   

1979  On March - 18 battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran   

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1380  On this day in history birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

1548  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.   

1590  On this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  On March - 18 death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.   

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.   

1493  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on this day in history.   

1584  On March - 18 ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53