Monday, March 18, 2024

On This Day in History

March 18

  

Historical Events

1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France. 

1325 According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico 

1890 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II. 

1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience. 

1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west. 

Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov conducts the first spacewalk during the Voshkod 2 mission

1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk

1990 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 

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Famous Birthdays

Grover Cleveland
1837 - 1908

Neville Chamberlain
1869 - 1940

F. W. de Klerk
1932 - 2021

Bonnie Blair
60th Birthday

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Famous Deaths

Robert Walpole
1676 - 1745

Chuck Berry
1926 - 2017

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The First People To Hop On A Bus

It was an idea probably two centuries years ahead of its time, but public buses first took to the streets of Paris on this day in history. 

The First Public Bus