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Mar 18, 1962: French-Algerian truce
On March 18, 1962, France and the leaders of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) sign a peace agreement to end the seven-year Algerian War, signaling the end of 130 years of colonial French rule in Algeria.
In late October 1954, a faction of young Algerian Muslims established the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) as a guerrilla organization dedicated to winning independence from France. They staged several bloody uprisings during the next year, and by 1956 the FLN was threatening to overrun the colonial cities, home to Algeria's sizable European settler population. In France, a new administration, led by Guy Mollet, promised to quell the Muslim rebellion and sent 500,000 French troops to Algeria to crush the FLN.
To isolate the rebels and their area of operations, France granted Tunisia and Morocco independence, and their borders with Algeria were militarized with barbed wire and electric fencing. When FLN leaders attempted to travel to Tunisia in October 1956 to discuss the Algerian War, French forces diverted their plane and jailed the men. In response, the FLN launched a new campaign of terrorism in the colonial capital of Algiers. General Jacques Massu, head of France's crack parachute unit, was given extraordinary powers to act in the city, and through torture and assassination the FLN presence in Algiers was destroyed. By the end of 1957, the rebels had been pushed back into rural areas, and it seemed the tide had turned in the Algerian War.
However, in May 1958, a new crisis began when European Algerians launched massive demonstrations calling for the integration of Algeria with France and for the return of Charles de Gaulle to power. In France, the Algerian War had seriously polarized public opinion, and many feared the country was on the brink of army revolt or civil war. On June 1, de Gaulle, who had served as leader of France after World War II, was appointed prime minister by the National Assembly and authorized to write a new national constitution.
Days after returning to power, de Gaulle visited Algiers, and though he was warmly welcomed by the European Algerians he did not share their enthusiasm for Algerian integration. Instead, he granted Muslims the full rights of French citizenship and in 1959 declared publicly that Algerians had the right to determine their own future. During the next two years, the worst violence in Algeria was perpetrated by European Algerians rather than the FLN, but scattered revolts and terrorism did not prevent the opening of peace negotiations between France and the FLN-led provisional government of the Algerian Republic in 1961.
On March 16, 1962, a peace agreement was signed at Evian-les-Bains, France, promising independence for Algeria pending a national referendum on the issue. French aid would continue, and Europeans could return to their native countries, remain as foreigners in Algeria, or take Algerian citizenship. On July 1, 1962, Algerians overwhelmingly approved the agreement, and most of the one million Europeans in Algeria poured out of the country. More than 100,000 Muslim and 10,000 French soldiers were killed in the seven-year Algerian War, along with thousands of Muslim civilians and hundreds of European colonists.
Mar 18, 1942: War Relocation Authority is established in United States
On this day, the War Relocation Authority is created to "Take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war."
Anger toward and fear of Japanese Americans began in Hawaii shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; everyone of Japanese ancestry, old and young, prosperous and poor, was suspected of espionage. This suspicion quickly broke out on the mainland; as early as February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered that German, Italian, and Japanese nationals—as well as Japanese Americans—be barred from certain areas deemed sensitive militarily. California, which had a significant number of Japanese and Japanese Americans, saw a particularly virulent form of anti-Japanese sentiment, with the state's attorney general, Earl Warren (who would go on to be the chief justice of the United States), claiming that a lack of evidence of sabotage among the Japanese population proved nothing, as they were merely biding their time.
While roughly 2,000 people of German and Italian ancestry were interned during this period, Americans of Japanese ancestry suffered most egregiously. The War Relocation Authority, established on March 18, 1942, was aimed at them specifically: 120,000 men, women, and children were rounded up on the West Coast. Three categories of internees were created: Nisei (native U.S. citizens of Japanese immigrant parents), Issei (Japanese immigrants), and Kibei (native U.S. citizens educated largely in Japan). The internees were transported to one of 10 relocation centers in California, Utah, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming.
The quality of life in a relocation center was only marginally better than prison: Families were sardined into 20- by 25-foot rooms and forced to use communal bathrooms. No razors, scissors, or radios were allowed. Children attended War Relocation Authority schools.
One Japanese American, Gordon Hirabayashi, fought internment all the way to the Supreme Court. He argued that the Army, responsible for effecting the relocations, had violated his rights as a U.S. citizen. The court ruled against him, citing the nation's right to protect itself against sabotage and invasion as sufficient justification for curtailing his and other Japanese Americans' constitutional rights.
In 1943, Japanese Americans who had not been interned were finally allowed to join the U.S. military and fight in the war. More than 17,000 Japanese Americans fought; the all-Nisei 442nd Regiment, which fought in the Italian campaign, became the single most decorated unit in U.S. history. The regiment won 4,667 medals, awards, and citations, including 1 Medal of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service Crosses, and 560 Silver Stars. Many of these soldiers, when writing home, were writing to relocation centers.
In 1990, reparations were made to surviving internees and their heirs in the form of a formal apology by the U.S. government and a check for $20,000.
Mar 18, 1950: Nationalist Chinese forces invade mainland China
In a surprise raid on the communist People's Republic of China (PRC), military forces of the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan invade the mainland and capture the town of Sungmen. Because the United States supported the attack, it resulted in even deeper tensions and animosities between the U.S. and the PRC.
In October 1949, the leader of the communist revolution in China, Mao Zedong, declared victory against the Nationalist government of China and formally established the People's Republic of China. Nationalist troops, politicians, and supporters fled the country and many ended up on Taiwan, an island off the Chinese coast. Once there, they declared themselves the real Chinese government and were immediately recognized as such by the United States. Officials from the United States refused to have anything to do with the PRC government and adamantly refused to grant it diplomatic recognition.
Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek bombarded the mainland with propaganda broadcasts and pamphlets dropped from aircraft signaling his intention of invading the PRC and removing what he referred to as the "Soviet aggressors." In the weeks preceding the March 18, 1950 raid, Chiang had been particularly vocal, charging that the Soviets were supplying the PRC with military advisors and an imposing arsenal of weapons. On March 18, thousands of Nationalist troops, supported by air and sea units, attacked the coast of the PRC, capturing the town of Sungmen that lay about 200 miles south of Shanghai. The Nationalists reported that they killed over 2,500 communist troops. Battles between the raiding group and communist forces continued for weeks, but eventually the Nationalist forces were defeated and driven back to Taiwan. Perhaps more important than the military encounter was the war of words between the United States and the PRC. Communist officials immediately charged that the United States was behind the raid, and even suggested that American pilots and advisors accompanied the attackers. (No evidence has surfaced to support those charges.) American officials were cautiously supportive of the Nationalist attack, though what they hoped it would accomplish beyond minor irritation to the PRC remains unknown. Just eight months later, military forces from the PRC and the United States met on the battlefield in Korea. Despite suggestions from some officials, including the commander of U.S. troops Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that the United States "unleash" the Nationalist armies against mainland China, President Harry S. Truman refrained from this action, fearing that it would escalate into World War III.
Mar 18, 1766: Parliament repeals the Stamp Act
After four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.
The Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765, leading to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation. Enacted in November 1765, the controversial act forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained. The stamp itself displayed an image of a Tudor rose framed by the word "America" and the French phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense--"Shame to him who thinks evil of it."
The colonists, who had convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the impending enactment, greeted the arrival of the stamps with outrage and violence. Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods, and some organized attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors. After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.
Mar 18, 1932: John Updike is born
On this day in 1932, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike is born in the small town of Shillington, Pennsylvania. The only child of a math teacher father and aspiring writer mother, Updike developed an early love for reading and drawing and won a scholarship to Harvard. He became editor of the famous Harvard Lampoon and married as an undergraduate.
After graduating in 1953, Updike went to England for a year to study art. In England, he met New Yorker writers and editors E.B. and Katherine White, who offered him a job.
Updike worked on staff for the illustrious magazine until 1957, when he quit and moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts, to concentrate on fiction and poetry. He supported his wife and children with contributions to the New Yorker and in 1958 published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, to favorable reviews. Two years later, he published Rabbit, Run, considered one of his best novels, about a former high school basketball star named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. He wrote a sequel, Rabbit Redux, in 1971 and won Pulitzer Prizes for Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990). Updike's 1968 novel, Couples, detailing the sexual high-jinx of married couples in a small town, topped the bestseller chart for several weeks.
The prolific Updike published some 60 books during his lengthy career, including novels, children's books, poetry, short story collections and non-fiction. He also wrote frequently for magazines. He died of lung cancer on January 29, 2009, at age 76.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims
Caligula emperor.
417 - St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
731 - St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1123 - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in
Rome
1167 - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs
Syrians
1184 - Battle of Ichi-no-Tani near Kobe, Japan
1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of
Jerusalem
1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master
of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1325 - According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this
date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.
1438 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 - Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians
of Netherlands
1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to
Rome
1541 - Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America
(Mississippi R)
1582 - Prince William of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 - Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the
Quakers
3rd Roman Emperor Caligula3rd Roman Emperor Caligula 1754 -
Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1773 - Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer,"
premieres in London
1781 - Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
1793 - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1793 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic
of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1810 - "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
1813 - David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for
making coal gas
1818 - Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m
long)
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England
are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to
Portillo Pass
1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American
Express in Buffalo
1858 - Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
1859 - Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War
of Reform
Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1864 -
Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
1865 - Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
1865 - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns
for last time
1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in
Oakland California)
1871 - Communards revolt in Paris
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting
exclusive trading rights.
1877 - President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal
of Wash DC
1881 - Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens
(Madison Square Garden)
1890 - 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1892 - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey
(Stanley Cup)
1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1900 - Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to
make a record
Abolitionist Frederick DouglassAbolitionist Frederick
Douglass 1902 - Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
1904 - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South
(Alassio)"
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at
the Met, NYC
1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the
recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1914 - White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen
China
1915 - Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 - French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1918 - Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 - Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1919 - Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1920 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 - 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow
China killing 1,000
1922 - 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship
(Princeton vs Yale)
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma GandhiPacifist and
Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi 1922 - British magistrates in India sentence
Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1922 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the
daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
1925 - (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn
kills 689
1929 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon,"
premieres in Leningrad
1930 - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1931 - Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1933 - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel
Vinson
1933 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger
Turner
1937 - Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1
kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
1938 - Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
1938 - NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant
women
1938 - Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British
oil companies
Italian Dictator Benito MussoliniItalian Dictator Benito
Mussolini 1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France
& Britain
1942 - Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of
theaters
1942 - 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland,
request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1943 - James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth),
torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1944 - 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to
purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store
1945 - 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st
NHLer to score 50 goals
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1948 - France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty
of Brussels
1948 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1948 - Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign
of Tito-Stalin split.
1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1949 - WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins
broadcasting
Soviet Union Premier Joseph StalinSoviet Union Premier
Joseph Stalin 1950 - "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
after 176 performances
1950 - CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1951 - Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf
Championship
1952 - 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila)
1952 - Communist offensive in Korea
1953 - 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana
beats Kansas 69-68
1953 - Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1953 - Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1953 - KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC)
begins broadcasting
1953 - NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st
shift since 1903)
1955 - I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1957 - WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS
(NBC) begins
1958 - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not
perform in 1958
1959 - Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56
straight free-throws
1959 - President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood
bill
1961 - Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1962 - Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben
Bella flees
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet
of USSR
1963 - "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC
for 264 performances
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker
Algeria
1963 - WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St
Theater NYC for 220 performances
1965 - Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
1965 - USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st
spacewalk (20 mins)
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft
Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC
for 3 performances
1966 - General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1966 - Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1967 - Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1967 - Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock & spills oil
1968 - Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1968 - WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1968 - WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1969 - "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne
Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 - -25) US Postal begins strike
1970 - Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince
Sihanuk flees
1970 - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends
broadcasting
1970 - Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 - NFL selects Wilson as official football &
scoreboard as official time
1971 - 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar
Peru
1972 - AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West
Chester State 52-48
1972 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 - Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225
games (Boston U)
1972 - Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a
game
1973 - "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296
performances
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against
US
1975 - Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 - Clash releases their 1st recording "White
Riot"
1977 - US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N
Korea & Cambodia
1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 - 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in
Ontario Calif
1978 - Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to
death
1979 - "On the 20th Century" closes at St James
Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1979 - Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in
Sananday Iran
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1980 - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being
refueled, killing 50
1981 - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period
(vs Toronto)
1982 - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a
car accident
1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf
Open
1985 - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
1985 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays
& Mickey Mantle
1986 - Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield
over Qld
1986 - Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
1987 - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns
(Jessica & Matthew)
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8),
returns to Earth
1989 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal
Studios
1989 - Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a
game
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the
Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - Largest ever art robbery at Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, Boston. 13 works valued over $500 million are stolen
1990 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives
beat Communists
1990 - 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
1990 - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a
pitch
1990 - Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing
Champion Mike Tyson 1991 - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
1991 - Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1991 - Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of
52 games
1992 - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at
Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf
1992 - Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
1992 - Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at
Albury
1993 - "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore
Theater NYC for 556 perfs
1993 - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
1993 - Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
1994 - South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of
secret police
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month
NBA retirement
1995 - STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days
Basketball Superstar Michael JordanBasketball Superstar
Michael Jordan 1996 - 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's
Swimathon '96
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills
162.
1997 - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of
HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive
corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official
British language.
2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the
request of her husband.
2012 - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos
and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
2012 - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal
republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
2013 - Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano,
Nigeria
2013 - A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in
Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 - 98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq
from a series of bombings and shootings
1584 Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan “The Terrible,” died at age 53. 1766 After months of American protests, Britain repealed the Stamp Act. 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. 1963 The Supreme Court held 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. 1990 The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs 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 Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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