MARCH 18
1940:After meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass in the Austro-Italian Alps, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini agrees to join Germany in World War II against Britain and France.
1766: The British Parliament repeals the hated Stamp Act, lifting the tax that American colonists had been forced to pay on nearly all documents in order to fund a standing British army in North America. The same day, however, the Declaratory Act affirms Parliament’s authority to enact binding laws on the colonies, despite American protests.
1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performs the first extra-vehicular activity in space, commonly referred to as a space walk. For 20 minutes, Leonov floats tethered to his Voskhod 2 capsule.
1766: The British Parliament repeals the hated Stamp Act, lifting the tax that American colonists had been forced to pay on nearly all documents in order to fund a standing British army in North America. The same day, however, the Declaratory Act affirms Parliament’s authority to enact binding laws on the colonies, despite American protests.
1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performs the first extra-vehicular activity in space, commonly referred to as a space walk. For 20 minutes, Leonov floats tethered to his Voskhod 2 capsule.
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