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Today in History
Monday, 18 March 2024
2006
Mike Rann secures the first Labor majority government in South Australia since 1985 by winning the state election.
2005
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.
2003
FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
2002
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
1997
The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
1996
A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1992
White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
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.
1989
In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
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