1953
Mar 18, Margaret L. Augustine, project manager for Biosphere 2, was born in Buffalo, NY.

1987
Mar 18, Susan Butcher won her second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, covering the distance from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, in 11 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes and 13 seconds.

1988
Mar 18, In Alabama Elizabeth Dorleen Sennett (45), the wife of a preacher, died after she was brutally beaten and stabbed in a contract killing. A week after becoming a suspect in the case, the victim's husband, Charles Sennett, shot and killed himself in his son's backyard. Sennett had contracted Bill Gray Williams to kill his wife for $3,000. According to court documents, Williams paid Kenneth Eugene Smith and John Forrest Parker $1,000 each to commit the murder. Parker was convicted in 1989 and executed for the murder in 2010.

1994
Mar 18, Published reports said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had made nearly $100,000 from the commodities market in the late 1970's on an initial investment of only $1,000.

2005
Mar 18, Doctors in Florida removed the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo (41) despite efforts by congressional Republicans to halt the process. The brain-damaged woman died on March 31, 2005, at age 41.

2006
Mar 18, In Cuba the wives and mothers of about two dozen political prisoners marched along several of the city's main avenues, singing hymns and carrying signs reading "amnesty" to commemorate the third anniversary of the crackdown that put their husbands behind bars.

2006
Mar 18, Egypt's health ministry said a 30-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, the country's first human victim of the virus.

2013
Mar 18, Chinese police arrested the husband of a Tibetan woman who died last week after setting herself alight in protest.

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