Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2014. There are 288 days left in the year. On March 18, 1974, most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the
United States that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765.
In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
In 1913, King George I of Greece was assassinated in Thessaloniki.
In 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.
Ten years ago: Addressing thousands of soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., President George W. Bush warned that terrorists could never be appeased and said there was no safety for any nation that "lives at the mercy of gangsters and mass murderers."
Five years ago: Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson, 45, died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a head injury while skiing in Canada.
One year ago: A plan to seize up to 10 percent of savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a massive financial bailout was met with fury.
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