Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

Monday, March 18, 2024

Today is the 78th day of 2024.  There are 287 days left in this year.

Notable Events

1766
Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1909
Einar Dessau of Denmark used a shortwave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what's believed to have been the first broadcast by a ''ham'' operator.
1922
Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He was released after serving two years.
1931
Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
1937
More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, 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.
1959
President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962
France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
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.
1974
Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
1999
The Kosovar Albanian delegation signed a U.S.-sponsored peace accord following talks in Paris; the Clinton administration warned NATO would act against Serb targets if Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic didn't accept the agreement.
2000
Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule, electing an opposition leader, Chen Shui-bian, whose party favored Taiwan's formal independence from the rest of China.

Notable Births

1837
Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, was born in Caldwell, N.J.