March 18th in History

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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