Today in History: March 18, deadliest U.S. tornado strikes Midwest states
In 1925, nearly 700 people died when the Tri-State Tornado struck southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana. It remains the deadliest single tornado in US history.
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In 1937, in America's worst school disaster, nearly 300 people — most of them children — were killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War Relocation Authority, which forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II.
In 1963, the US Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire an attorney on their own.
In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.
In 1990, two thieves posing as police officers subdued security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art in Boston, and stole 13 works of art valued at over $500 million in the biggest art heist in history.
In 1996, rejecting an insanity defense, a jury in Dedham convicted John C. Salvi III of murdering two women in attacks at two Boston-area abortion clinics in December 1994. (Salvi later died by suicide in his prison cell.)
In 2018, a self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle.
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