March 18<\/p>\n
37 \u2013 The Roman Senate annuls the will of Emperor Tiberius and proclaims Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, emperor.<\/p>\n
1241 \u2013 After consolidating the invasion of the Kievan Russia to the east, the\u00a0 Mongols of Genghis Khan under the command of Subutai Bahadur, invade Poland, overwhelm Polish armies in Krak\u00f3w and plunder the city.<\/p>\n
1644 \u2013 The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.<\/p>\n
1766 \u2013 After only being in effect in the American colonies for a few months, due to great protests, -“No Taxation Without Representation” –<\/em>\u00a0the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act<\/em>. The protests by the colonists are generally considered to be the prelude of events that finally resulted in the Revolutionary War and American Independence.<\/p>\n 1793 \u2013 The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, with its capitol at Mainz, directly across the Rhine river from Wiesbaden, is formed.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman dies in Fort Wayne, Indiana, age 70.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 At Washington City, Georgia, the Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time and disbands.<\/p>\n 1874 \u2013 King Kal\u0101kaua of Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 During a massive tornado outbreak, the deadliest tornado in U.S history, called the Tri-State Tornado<\/em> hits the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people over its 219 mile long track.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 A natural gas leak explodes at the New London School in New London, Texas, killing 300 people, mostly children.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Less than a month after signing executive order 9066, allowing the internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent, President Roosevelt signs executive order 9102 forming the War Relocation Authority<\/em> to established the internment camps and take Japanese Americans into custody.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The Hawaii Admission Act<\/em> is signed into law, with statehood for Hawaii coming into effect on August, 21.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2<\/em>, becomes the first person to walk in space.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty allowing Russia to annex the Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 18 37 \u2013 The Roman Senate annuls the will of Emperor Tiberius and proclaims Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, emperor. 1241 \u2013 After consolidating the invasion of the Kievan Russia to the east, the\u00a0 Mongols of Genghis Khan under the command of Subutai Bahadur, invade Poland, overwhelm Polish armies in Krak\u00f3w and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90858,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65908\/revisions\/90858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}