Friday, March 18, 2011

March 18

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. Count Me Out Stakes Is High Permanent
2 1673 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. Orchid New Jersey Vs Valhalla Discography
3 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. Early Day Miners The Union Trade All Harm Ends Here
4 1893 Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams. Shannon Wright You're the Cup Flightsafety
5 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years. Jade Warrior Obedience Last Autumn's Dream
6 1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. Depeche Mode Spacewalker Sounds of the Universe
7 1990 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Future Bible Heroes You Still the Scene Memories of Love

(Historical facts about March 18 are from Wikipedia.)

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