March 18 is National Sloppy Joe Day
In 1541, Hernando de Soto observed first recorded flood in America (Mississippi River).
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, sold his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, on March 18, 1673.
Birthday of John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782), American statesman from South Carolina, 7th Vice-President of the U.S. in administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
Publication of Federalist Paper #71: The Duration in Office of the Executive written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
From www.teaparty911.com
This paper deals with DURATION the second requisite to the energy of the executive authority. Duration here has two objects, the personal firmness of the Executive Magistrate in carrying out his constitutional powers, and the stability of the administration which he has assembled. The idea here is that a person without duration acting as a chief magistrate aware that he will only occupy the office for a short time will be little interested in it and will not put in the necessary effort to ward off the ill humors that may appear in the society itself or in a predominant faction of the legislature.
Some say the President should be compliant to the prevailing current in the community or in the Legislature. But it is not said that in a republican government the representatives should bend to every whim of the public for at times the interest of the public is at a variance with their desires. At these times it is necessary for the people whom they have appointed to give the public time for cooler heads to prevail.
In 1818, Congress approved first pensions for government service.
Birthday of Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837), twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the U.S. Cleveland is the only president married in the White House and his second daughter, Esther, is the only child of a President born at the White House. The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Cleveland’s first daughter, Ruth.
In 1850 – American Express was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
Birthday of Rudolph Diesel (March 18, 1858), German engineer and developer of the diesel internal-combustion engine.
Congress of Confederate States of American adjourned for last time in 1865.
Hawaii signed a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights in 1874.
Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledged to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada in 1892; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
Mussolini joined Hitler in Germany’s war against France and Britain on March 18, 1940.
In 1961, Poppin’ Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy was introduced. He was created by the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency’s copy writer, Rudy Perz, and originally drawn by Martin Nodell.