March 18th in History
March 18th in History
- 1662: First public bus service started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city
- 1850: American Express company formed in Buffalo, New York
- 1931: First electric razors made in the United States
- 1949: NATO set up by seven European countries
- 1965: Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space
- 1990: East Germany's first elections in over sixty years
March 18th birthdays
- 1844: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer
- 1858: Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine
- 1869: Neville Chamberlain, Former British prime minister
