Today in History - History - March 18th

1959Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws

2014Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks

1991Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round

1984chris johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open

37The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

1940Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain

1541Hernando de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)

1991Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey

1948Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split.

1922British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience

1922Fred Shuttlesworth, Mount Meigs Alabama, American civil rights activist

1970Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)

1782John C. Calhoun, Abbeville South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)

1941Wilson Pickett, Prattville Alabama, R&B singer (Funky Broadway)

1879Cluny MacPherson, St. John's Newfoundland, Canadian doctor (inventor of the gas mask)

1869[Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Birmingham, British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40)

1993Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC

1869US Abolitionist Harriet Tubman marries civil war veteran Nelson Davis in Auburn NY

2009Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)

1584Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53