AP Highlight in History: On March 18, 1837, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
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1766
Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
1922
Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience.
1925
A tornado with a base nearly a mile wide tore a destructive path 219 miles from southeastern Missouri across Illinois and into southwestern Indiana. With 695 killed, it is the deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
1931
Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
1940
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain.
1959
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962
France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
1965
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov went on the first spacewalk.
1974
Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
2000
Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule by electing opposition leader Chen Shui-bian president.
2002
A 13-year-old girl died two days after being hit in the head by a hockey puck during an NHL game in Columbus, Ohio.
2005
Doctors in Florida, acting on orders of a state judge, removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. (The brain-damaged woman died 13 days later.)
2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama confronted America's racial divide with a speech in Philadelphia. It was prompted by incindiary racial remarks made by Obama's African-American pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
2009
British actress Natasha Richardson, 45, died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a head injury while skiing in Canada.
