1900<\/strong> – Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club) was formed.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – France dissolved the Catholic religious orders.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – In Morocco, it was reported that France and Germany were in a deadlock at the Algeciras Conference.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a “ham” operator.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – The first opera by a U.S. composer performed at the Met in New York City.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – Greek King George I was killed by an assassin. Constantine, I succeeded him.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis<\/i>, Vigilante, <\/i>and Illinois<\/i>, without any warning.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Poland was enlarged with the second Peace of Riga.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – The steamer “Hong Koh” ran aground off of Swatow China. Over 1,000 people were killed.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the sentence.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Princeton and Yale played the first intercollegiate indoor polo championship.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, TX.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Mexico took control of all foreign-owned oil properties on its soil.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – New York first required serological blood tests of pregnant women.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The soap opera “Light of the World” was first heard on NBC radio.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany’s war against France and Britain during the meeting.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World War II.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – The Reich called off its offensive in the Caucasus.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – American forces took Gafsa in Tunisia.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – The Russians reached the Rumanian border in the Balkans during World War II.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Maurice “Rocket” Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – France, Great Britain, and Benelux signed the Treaty of Brussels.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – In Philadelphia, PA, the first plastic lenses were fitted for a cataract patient.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – An earthquake hit West Turkey killing 250 people.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person was Howard Hughes.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – French and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – “Tovarich” opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City for 264 performances.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – France performed an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal counsel for defendants.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II<\/i> space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – The government of Indonesia was formed by General Suharto.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – U.S. President Nixon authorizes Operation Menue. It was the \u2018secret\u2019 bombing of Cambodia.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The U.S. Postal Service experienced the first postal strike.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as the official time.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – U.S. helicopters airlifted 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – A landslide in Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru, killed 200.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-month embargo against the United States, Europe, and Japan.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Saigon abandoned most of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to Hanoi.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – The Kurds ended their fight against Iraq.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – Vietnam turned over an MIA to a U.S. delegation.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett. The next day she was deported.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The Vostok<\/i> rocket exploded on the launch pad killing 50.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. disclosed that there were biological weapons tested in Texas in 1966.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Thirteen paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The value was $100 million making it the largest art robbery in history.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The first free elections took place in East Germany.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being hit with a pitch.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Leona Helmsley was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – White South Africans voted for constitutional reforms that would give legal equality to blacks.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Zsa Zsa Gabor filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – A Russian AN-24 crashed killing 50 people.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – China’s new president, Hu Jintao, announced that his country must deepen reforms and raise living standards of workers and farmers.<\/p>\n 2014 <\/strong>\u2013 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.<\/p>\n 2015 <\/strong>\u2013 The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History Of 18 March 1900 – Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club) was formed. 1902 – In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail. 1903 – France dissolved the Catholic religious orders. 1906 – In Morocco, it was reported that France and Germany were in a deadlock at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[672,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-18-march","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-12E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23458,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/23458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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