TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, March 18.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT:
On March 18, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire an attorney on their own.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1910, the first filmed adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” a silent short produced by Thomas Edison’s New York movie studio, was released.
In 1911, Irving Berlin’s first major hit,“Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” was first published by Ted Snyder & Co. of New York.
In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years’ imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.)
In 1925, the Tri-State
Tornado struck southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths. In 1937, in America’s worst school disaster, nearly
300 people, most of them children, were killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany’s war against France and Britain.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War
Relocation Authority, which was put in charge of interning Japanese-Americans, with Milton S. Eisenhower (the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower) as its director.
In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether. In 1974, most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their 5-month-old embargo against the United States that had been sparked by American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
In 1996, rejecting an insanity defense, a jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, convicted John C. Salvi III of murdering two women in attacks at two Boston-area abortion clinics in December 1994. (Salvi later committed suicide in his prison cell.)
In 2017, Chuck Berry, rock
‘n’ roll’s founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,”“Sweet Little Sixteen” and“Roll Over Beethoven,” died at his home west of St. Louis at age 90.
In 2018, Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing reelection victory for six more years as Russia’s president.
One year ago: The U.S. and Canada agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel. Describing himself as a“wartime president,” President Donald Trump said he would invoke emergency powers to let the government steer production of needed medical supplies by private companies.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Not only will you see what others overlook but you’ll also turn these details and aspects around in your mind until you start to see how they might fit together in a more useful, interesting or lucrative way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You use your time well and your energy efficiently. As others observe how you focus yourself, they will decide straight away that you are not someone to trifle with.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). By using your time, energy and vitality very well, you let others know that you’re in control of your life. They will not try to derail you because they see the futility in that.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Emotional and physical bruises work in the same way: They’re tender until healed. You avoid touching them until one day, you realize that there are no painful sensations associated with the area. Today brings such a realization.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your heart is open for business, and you’re in for lively exchanges. In solitude, you can rest, process and ready your heart for another round.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There is a thing you want because you’d like to see their faces when you get it. But if no one else could know, would you still want it? That’s the litmus test that will reveal your true heart’s desire.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You need humor. It’s not an option; it’s a requirement. Laughter releases the tension, elevates your point of view, lifts your mood and aligns you with the people who get you on a soul level.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Remember how noisy places allowed for a raucous time without the pressure of conversation? With your longing for such environments peaking, you’ll still seize the opportunity to work on developing communication skills.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If all the options that used to be readily available were on offer now, you wouldn’t see the golden opportunity of this day: to seize what is within your control. Don’t wait for the change. The change is you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) .Anew relationship will have you seeing an old relationship differently. Certain history will take on altered significance, meaning and scale as though you’re looking at it through someone else’s prescription glasses.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The excitement comes with a realization that you don’t have to stay stuck — you can let go of something and, suddenly, there’s wiggle room. Let go of something else and you can practically walk right out of that jam.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Most of the opportunities blend into the background with the stylish camouflage of people wearing suits made out of the wallpaper they are standing in front of. If you scan the scene, you’ll miss it.
IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY:
There’s the option of sticking with what’s expected of you, but you get better results when you forget about the “mature” move and fall into carefree moments, letting go. You’ll take something you’re good at and raise it to such an exceptional level that an elite world will open to you. Taurus and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are 11, 5, 20, 14 and 28.