March 18: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1673 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sold his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
2. 1892 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledged to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
3. 1915 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships were sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
4. 1940 - World War II: Axis Powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
5. 1942 - The War Relocation Authority was established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
6. 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
7. 1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, became the first person to walk in space.
8. 1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
9. 1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
10. 1992 - In a national referendum white South Africans voted overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.
11. Famous Birthdays: Christian Goldbach (Prussian mathematician), John C. Calhoun (American politician, 7th Vice President of the United States), Randal Cremer (English politician, Nobel Prize laureate), Grover Cleveland (American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States), Rudolf Diesel (German engineer, invented the Diesel engine)

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