Thursday, March 18th
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On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether. (Go to article.)
On March 18, 1837, Grover Cleveland, the only U.S. president who served two non-consecutive terms, was born. Following his death on June 24, 1908, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On March 18, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a federal government scandal. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1766 Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1922 Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience.
1925 A tornado with a base nearly a mile wide tore a destructive path 219 miles from southeastern Missouri across Illinois and into southwestern Indiana. With 695 killed, it is the deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
1931 Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
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.
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962 France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
1974 Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
2000 Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2002 A 13-year-old girl died two days after being hit in the head by a hockey puck during an NHL game in Columbus, Ohio.
2005 Doctors in Florida, acting on orders of a state judge, removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. (The brain-damaged woman 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.
2009 British actress Natasha Richardson, 45, died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a head injury while skiing in Canada.
Current Birthdays
Queen Latifah turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Nick Wass Rapper-actress Queen Latifah turns 40 years old today.
84 Peter Graves
Actor ("Mission: Impossible")
83 John Kander
Composer ("Chicago")
74 F.W. de Klerk
Former South African president
72 Charley Pride
Country singer
67 Kevin Dobson
Actor ("Knots Landing")
60 Brad Dourif
Actor ("Deadwood")
51 Irene Cara
Singer
48 James McMurtry
Rock singer, songwriter
47 Vanessa L. Williams
Singer, actress
46 Bonnie Blair
Olympic gold medal speed skater
38 Dane Cook
Actor, comedian
35 Brian Griese
Football player
31 Adam Levine
Rock singer (Maroon 5)
Historic Birthdays
Grover Cleveland
3/18/1837 - 6/24/1908
22nd and 24th president of the United States
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77 Friedrich Nicolai
3/18/1733 - 1/8/1811
German writer; a leader of the German Enlightenment
68 John C. Calhoun
3/18/1782 - 3/31/1850
American statesman
74 Francis Lieber
3/18/1798 - 10/2/1872
German-born American political philosopher and jurist
73 Antonio Salviati
3/18/1816 - 1/25/1890
Italian glass manufacturer
90 Nathanael Herreshoff
3/18/1848 - 6/2/1938
American naval architect and yacht designer
55 Rudolf Diesel
3/18/1858 - 9/29/1913
German thermal engineer; invented the internal-combustion engine
78 William Sulzer
3/18/1863 - 11/6/1941
New York governor (1913); impeached and removed from office
71 Neville Chamberlain
3/18/1869 - 11/9/1940
English prime minister
77 Chiang Ching-kuo
3/18/1910 - 1/13/1988
Chinese son of Chiang Kai-shek and his successor as leader of China
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