This day in History - March 18

401 Historic Events for March 18
1913 Birth Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 Birth Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1914 Birth Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
1914 Event White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
1914 Birth James Pack, naval officer museum curator
1915 Event French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1915 Event Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 Birth Richard Thomas Condon, author
1916 Birth Louis Toebosch, composer
1917 Death William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
1918 Event Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1918 Death Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
1918 Event Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1919 Event Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1919 Birth Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1919 Birth Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1920 Event Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1920 Birth Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
1920 Birth John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Poland, Pope (1978- )
1921 Event Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1921 Event 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1922 Event Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1922 Event Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1922 Event 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 Event WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions