401 Historic Events for March 18
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| 1830 |
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Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
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| 1834 |
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1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
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| 1835 |
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Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
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| 1837 |
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Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
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| 1838 |
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Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
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| 1838 |
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Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
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| 1839 |
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Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
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| 1843 |
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Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
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| 1844 |
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
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| 1847 |
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1st Dutch public telegram
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| 1848 |
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Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
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| 1850 |
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Henry Wells and William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
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| 1858 |
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Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
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| 1858 |
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Dutch Van der Brugghen govt resigns
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| 1859 |
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Vera Cruz besieged by Miram¢n (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
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| 1864 |
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Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
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| 1864 |
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Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
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| 1865 |
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Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
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| 1866 |
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Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
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| 1866 |
Birth |
John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
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| 1867 |
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Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
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| 1869 |
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[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
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| 1870 |
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1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)
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| 1870 |
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Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
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