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Jordan is back in the game and many more historic events happened on March 18th, the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). There are 288 days remaining in the year. Find out the facts!

	3952 BC - According to the Venerable Bede, the world was created.
	1673 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to some Friends (Quakers).
	1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
	1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
	1865 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
	1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
	1906 - Traian Vuia flew a self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft which took off without any external means
	1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first radio broadcaster.
	1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
	1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
	1925 - The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
	1937 - The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
	1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
	1959 - American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
	1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
	1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
	1971 - A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
	1974 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
	1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops.
	1990 - 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the largest art theft in US history.
	1995 - Michael Jordan announces that he will come out of retirement and play for the Chicago Bulls once again.
	2003 - US enters war in Iraq. About $1 billion was taken from Iraq's Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the United States began bombing Iraq, biggest bank robbery in history. [1]
	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.
	2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.

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