March 18
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March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). There are 288 days remaining in the year.
[change] Events
- 1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act after American protests.
- 1925 - Tri-state tornado, kills and injures thousands of people in the midwest.
- 1937 - 300 hundred students and teachers die after an exploson is a caused by a gas leak at the New London school in Texas.
- 1965 - Aleksei Leonov takes first space walk.
- 1990 - 12 paintings worth $100 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the biggest art theft in US history.
[change] Births
- 1782 - John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 1837 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908)
- 1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
- 1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
- 1869 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- 1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
[change] Deaths
- 978 - King Edward the Martyr of England
- 1745 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
