Thursday, March 18, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 18

1922:Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for urging civil disobedience in India.

1940:
Benito Mussolini allies Italy with Germany against France and Great Britain during a meeting with Adolf Hitler.

1959: 
President Dwight Eisenhower approves Hawaiian statehood.

1965:
Russian Alexei Leonov is the first man to walk in space as he floats over the Soviet Union, tethered to his two-man spacecraft.

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