March 18

On This Day In History
	2000: Election of Chen Shui-bian On this day in 2000, Chen Shui-bian, a leader of the proindependence movement that sought statehood for the Republic of China (Taiwan), was elected president of Taiwan, breaking the Nationalist Party's 55-year rule.
Chen Shui-bian, 2000
Biography Of The Day
	John Updike American writer John Updike, whose novels, short stories, and poems are known for their realistic but subtle depiction of “American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class” life, was born this day in 1932.
John Updike
More Events On This Day In History
1974	1974 Seven member countries of OPEC lifted a five-month oil embargo against the United States.
	1965 Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov became the first man to walk in space after passing through an air lock on the spacecraft Voskhod 2.
	1964 Speed skater Bonnie Blair, one of the most successful American women athletes in Olympic competition, was born in Cornwall, New York.
1906	1906 The first monoplane, constructed by the Romanian inventor Trajan Vuia, made a flight of 12 metres (40 feet).
	1902 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, one of the first musicians to document his voice on the gramophone, made his first phonograph recording.
1871	1871 The Commune of Paris, an insurrection of Parisians against the French government, began, lasting until May 28.
	1869 Neville Chamberlain, who was British prime minister from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, and whose name is identified with the policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler's Germany, was born.
1766	1766 British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act of 1765 after violent protests from American colonists.