On This Day March 18 is the 77th day of 2014 with 288 days remaining of the year. 1865 - Battle of Wilsons raid to Selma, Alabama. 1865 - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time. 1869 - Congress passes the Act to Strengthen the Public Credit, by paying off US obligations in coin. 1931 - First electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick). 1937 - Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas, USA; 296 die. 1938 - New York first requires serological blood tests of pregnant women. 1938 - Mexico expropriates property of 17 American and British oil companies for failure to comply with wage decisions. 1939 - American President Franklin Roosevelt imposes punitive tariffs on imports from Germany. 1944 - 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store. 1945 - 1,250 US bombers attack Berlin. 1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu. 1945 - 1,250 US bombers attack Berlin. 1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) pact ratified. 1952 - First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia). 1959 - President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill. 1963 - US Supreme Courts Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers. 1967 - The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction opens in New Orleans Square at Disneyland. It includes 119 Audio-Animatronics figures; 64 human, 55 animals. The whole attraction cost US$8 million to build. 1970 - US mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike. 1974 - Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against US. 1977 - Vietnam hands over missing-in-action soldiers to US. 1977 - US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia. 1978 - 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California. 1985 - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC TV. 1986 - US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money. 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1987 - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns in USA: Jessica and Matthew. 1989 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios. 1990 - Twelve paintings, collectively worth US$100+ million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by two thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2007) have not been recovered. 1992 - On CNNs Larry King Live, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot announces that he will run for U.S. President as an independent, if volunteers put him on the ballot in all 50 states. 1992 - Leona Helmsley sentenced to four years for tax evasion. 1992 - Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame. 1995 - NASA space shuttle mission STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16.5 days in orbit. 2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the companys top executives. 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes 420 points higher than the previous day. 2008 - The US Federal Reserve cuts the interest rate by a further 0.75, down to 2.25 percent. 2009 - The US Federal Reserve, for the first time since the 1960s, announces it will buy up to US$300 billion of government Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve also announces it will expand an existing program to buy debt and securities to US$1.45 trillion.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:00:02 +0000
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