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Associated Press
18-03-2025
- General
- Associated Press
Today in History: March 18, deadliest U.S. tornado strikes Midwest states
Today in history: On March 18, 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 U.S. history. Also on this date: In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.) 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 U.S. 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.
Associated Press
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
Today in History: January 30, Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
Today in history: On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Also on this date: In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason. In 1933, Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing over 9,000, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived. In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities. In 1969, The Beatles staged an unannounced concert atop Apple headquarters in London that would be their last public performance. In 1972, 13 Catholic civil rights marchers were shot and killed by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as 'Bloody Sunday.' In 2017, President Donald Trump fired Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his controversial refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. In 2020, health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States.
