March 18
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[edit] Events
- 1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act after American protests.
- 1925 - Tri-state tornado, kills and injures thousands of people in the midwest.
- 1937 - 300 hundred students and teachers die after an exploson is a caused by a gas leak at the New London school in Texas.
- 1965 - Aleksei Leonov takes first space walk.
- 1990 - 12 paintings worth $100 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the biggest art theft in US history.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 1584 - Ivan the Terrible
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