On This Day in History
March 18
Historical Events
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
1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agrees to join Germany's impending war effort in the west
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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
Also Wilfred Owen and F. W. de Klerk
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Famous Deaths
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The First People To Hop On A Bus
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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.
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