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MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Friday November 21, 2008

March 18 in history:

• 2000: In Taiwan's elections voters ended more than 50 years of Kuomintang (Nationalist party) domination by electing Chen Shui-bian as president.

• 1965: The Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 was launched, carrying aloft cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, who became the first man to walk in outer space.

• 1925: The deadliest tornado in U.S. history ripped a mile-wide path through Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri, killing 695 people and destroying 15,000 homes.

• 1915: As a British fleet attempted to force the Dardanelles, three battleships struck mines and sank, causing the British admiral to withdraw; the failure of this purely naval effort to reach Istanbul and knock Ottoman Turkey out of World War I led to the long and disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

• 1766: The Stamp Act, the tax imposed by Britain on the American colonies, was rescinded by Parliament; at the same time, however, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, which asserted Britain's supremacy over America "in all cases whatsoever."