Today in History, 3/18

37: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will, making Caligula emperor.
1241: Krakow, Poland is sacked by the Mongols.
1341: Jacques de Molay, last grand master of the Knights Templar is burned at the stake.1766: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1837: Grover Cleveland is born. He is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.1850: American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
1865: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
1926: Peter Graves is born. He was in the MST3K episodes SST Death Flight, It Conquered the World, Beginning of the End and Parts: The Clonus Horror.

1927: George Plimpton is born.1941: Wilson Pickett is born.

1950: Brad Dourif is born. He is best know for playing psychotics, from the twisted Mentat Piter De Vries in the David Lynch Dune to Luther Lee Boggs in The X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea" to the serial killer Lon Suder on Star Trek: Voyager.1951: Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is born.1959: Irene Cara is born.
1962: Mike Rowe is born. He is most famous for hosting Dirty Jobs but I remember when he was the guy on the "How to use your Primestar Satellite Receiver" channel. Here he is on home shopping circa 1992.

1965: The first spacewalk takes place as cosmonaut leaves his capsule for 20 minutes.
1963: Vanessa Williams is born.1970: Queen Latifah is born.1972: Dane Cook is born. You might remember him as "The Guy You Want to Strangle" on TBS's commercials for the baseball playoffs last fall. "There's only one October!"


1968: The US Congress repeals the requirements for US currency to be backed by gold.
1990: The largest art theft in US history, as 12 painting collectively worth $300 million are stolen from the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston.
2003: The largest bank robbery in history takes place as Saddam Hussein and his family steal $1 billion from the Iraqi Central Bank on the eve of the US invasion.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.