March 18
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States and the only U.S. president 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", hit Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring 13,000 others.
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.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
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 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
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.
1980 - Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of mobster John Gotti, was struck and killed by a car driven by John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, New York. (The following July, Favara vanished, the apparent victim of a gang hit.)
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.
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 Schaivo's feeding tube was removed in a bitter right-to-die battle. 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.
Birthdays
21 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
22 - Madeline Carroll (actress)
23 - Tink (rapper)
23 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
29 - Lily Collins (actress)
29 - Jess Impiazzi (model)
35 - Ethan Carter III (professional wrestler)
36 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
36 - Adam Pally (actor)
39 - Danneel Harris (actress/model)
39 - Adam Levine (singer)
43 - Sutton Foster (actress)
46 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
48 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
49 - Michael Bergin (actor)
53 - David Cubitt (actor)
54 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
55 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
56 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
56 - James McMurtry (singer)
56 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
57 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
82 - F.W. de Klerk (former president of South Africa)
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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.
1930 - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1953 - National League approves Boston Braves' move to Milwaukee (first shift since 1903).
1970 - NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time.
1972 - AIAW holds their first women's basketball national championship game, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48.
1981 - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in one period (they beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4).
1985 - Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. The two had been banned from associating with major league baseball due to their employment with Atlantic City casinos.
1990 - After a 32-day lockout, Major League Baseball players and owners reach an agreement on a four-year contract.
1990 - Loyola Marymount beats Michigan 149-115, in the highest-scoring NCAA Tournament game to date.
1991 - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round.
1991 - Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey.
1995 - Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls.
1997 - Nebraska defeated Nevada 78-68 in the second round of the NIT.
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.
2004 - The Nebraska women's basketball team defeated Drake 73-60 in the opening round of the WNIT.
2007 - Temple defeated Nebraska 64-61 in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2012 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 57-49 in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53.
1766 - After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1837 - Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States and the only U.S. president 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", hit Missouri, Indiana and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring 13,000 others.
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.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
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 - Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
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.
1980 - Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of mobster John Gotti, was struck and killed by a car driven by John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, New York. (The following July, Favara vanished, the apparent victim of a gang hit.)
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.
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 Schaivo's feeding tube was removed in a bitter right-to-die battle. 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.
Birthdays
21 - Ciara Bravo (actress)
22 - Madeline Carroll (actress)
23 - Tink (rapper)
23 - Julia Goldani Telles (actress)
29 - Lily Collins (actress)
29 - Jess Impiazzi (model)
35 - Ethan Carter III (professional wrestler)
36 - Cornelius Smith Jr. (actor)
36 - Adam Pally (actor)
39 - Danneel Harris (actress/model)
39 - Adam Levine (singer)
43 - Sutton Foster (actress)
46 - Dane Cook (actor/comedian)
48 - Queen Latifah (rapper/actress)
49 - Michael Bergin (actor)
53 - David Cubitt (actor)
54 - Bonnie Blair (speed skater)
55 - Vanessa L. Williams (actress/singer)
56 - Mike Rowe (TV host)
56 - James McMurtry (singer)
56 - Thomas Ian Griffith (actor)
57 - Geoffrey Owens (actor)
82 - F.W. de Klerk (former president of South Africa)
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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.
1930 - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHL player to score 50 goals.
1953 - Indiana defeats Kansas 69-68 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1953 - National League approves Boston Braves' move to Milwaukee (first shift since 1903).
1970 - NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time.
1972 - AIAW holds their first women's basketball national championship game, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48.
1981 - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in one period (they beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4).
1985 - Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. The two had been banned from associating with major league baseball due to their employment with Atlantic City casinos.
1990 - After a 32-day lockout, Major League Baseball players and owners reach an agreement on a four-year contract.
1990 - Loyola Marymount beats Michigan 149-115, in the highest-scoring NCAA Tournament game to date.
1991 - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round.
1991 - Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey.
1995 - Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announces he's returning to basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls.
1997 - Nebraska defeated Nevada 78-68 in the second round of the NIT.
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.
2004 - The Nebraska women's basketball team defeated Drake 73-60 in the opening round of the WNIT.
2007 - Temple defeated Nebraska 64-61 in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2012 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 57-49 in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
