March 18, 2023
QUOTE
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
--Neville Chamberlain
BIRTHDAYS
1845 – Kicking Bear, Miniconjou Lakota Sioux tribal leader
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, inventor of the Diesel engine
1869 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1934 – Charley Pride, Country music singer and musician
IN MEMORY
2010 – Fess Parker, Actor and businessman
2020 – Alfred Worden, Apollo 15 command module pilot
IN ON THIS DAY
1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
1241 – In the first Mongol invasion of Poland the Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1766 – The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1865 – The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
1968 – The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.