March 18th
Today in America's Present Past
1673 | John Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1782 | Politician John C. Calhoun was born.
1818 | Congress: The first federal government pensions are approved.
1837 | POTUS: President Cleveland was born.
1845 | Johnny Appleseed, pioneer nurseryman, died.
1848 | Yachtsman Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff was born.
1850 | Henry Wells & William Fargo found American Express.
1865 | Civil War: Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, Alabama.
1877 | Civil Rights: Republican President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
1881 | Barnum & Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” debuted after their merger.
1882 | Outlaws in Tombstone, Arizona murder Morgan Earp.
1892 | Poet P. T. Coffin was born.
1895 | 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia.
1906 | Admiral Roy Johnson was born.
1909 | Entrepreneur Ernest Gallo was born.
1915 | Novelist Richard Condon was born.
1922 | Activist Fred Shuttlesworth was born.
1932 | Novelist John Updike was born.
1942 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans.
1947 | Entrepreneur William C. Durant died.
1951 | Entrepreneur Ben Cohen was born.
1956 | Novelist Louis Bromfield died.
1979 | Entertainer Adam Levine was born.
2010 | Actor Fess Parker died.
2017 | Entertainer Chuck Berry died.