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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