Daily Calendar for Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Events

• British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act– 1766
• Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time– 1865
• Telephone communication established between London and the Continent– 1891
• Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to six years in jail after his first civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India– 1922
• First electric razor marketed– 1931
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states must supply free legal aid to indigent clients charged with serious criminal offenses– 1963
• Russian cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov became the first man to float freely in space, on a lifeline attached to Soviet spacecraft Voskhod– 1965
• Fourteen NATO members (all except France) expressed their support for the North Atlantic Treaty and the principle of military integration– 1966
• The tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked near Cornwall, England, and discharged more than 31,000,000 gallons of crude oil– 1967
• U.S. postal workers went on strike– 1970
• Most Arab oil companies ended oil embargo against U.S.– 1974
• Capital Cities Communications, Inc., announced the purchase of American Broadcasting Companies for $3.5 billion– 1985
• Fleet Financial Corp. and Norstar Bancorp swapped stock in a $1.3 billion merger– 1987
• Daylilies return to Earth on space shuttle Discovery– 1989
• Largest art theft in the United States at the time ($500 million) occurred in Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston– 1990
• Sumatran tiger born, Sacramento Zoo, California– 2010