Historical Events In March - 18

1963  On March - 18 supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers   

1964  On this day in history norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69   

1965  Egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome on this day in history.   

1965  On March - 18 rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination   

1965  On March - 18 soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space   

1965  On March - 18 uSSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes)   

1965  Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45 on March - 18.   

1966  On March - 18 general Suharto forms government in Indonesia   

1966  Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 on March - 18.   

1967  Beatles' "Penny Lane", single goes #1 on March - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

1968  On March - 18 congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve   

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

1969  On March - 18 barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43   

1970  Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees on this day in history.   

1970  On this day in history mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike   

1971  200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru on March - 18.   

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

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

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

1974  On March - 18 most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US   

1974  On March - 18 david C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87   

1975  On March - 18 kurds end fight against Iraqi army   

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

1977  Clash releases their first recording "White Riot" on this day in history.   

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

1977  On March - 18 uS restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia   

1977  Vietnam hands over MIA to US on this day in history.   

1977  Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered on March - 18.   

1978  On March - 18 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA   

1978  Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death on this day in history.   

1978  On March - 18 faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84   

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  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.   

1496  On this day in history birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

1548  On March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.   

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

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  On this day in history jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

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 March - 18.   

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53