03-18-2006, 07:21 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
March 18th
1844 ~ Birthday of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer.
1850 ~ American Express was founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
1909 ~ Einar Dessau used a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a ham radio operator.
1940 ~ Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain.
1962 ~ France and Algeria signed an agreement ending the Algerian War.
1965 ~ Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, and became the first man to walk in space.
1968 ~ The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1978 ~ Death of Leigh Brackett, Science Fiction author.
1990 ~ 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the largest art theft in U.S. history.
1992 ~ Microsoft shipped Windows 3.1.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|