Male Opera Kevin Dobson

Events in 1943 and 18-3

Events in US in the birth year of Kevin Dobson

• President freezes prices, salaries, and wages to prevent inflation .
• Withholding tax on wages introduced. Background: History of the Income Tax in the United States
• The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
• The Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882 and 1902 are repealed permitting immigration and naturalization of Chinese.

Birthday Kevin Dobson (18-3) in history

• Day 18-3 year 1584: Russian tsar Ivan IV, or "Ivan, the tyrant", died in Moscow, Russia, at 53.
• Day 18-3 year 1766: Britain repealed the American Colonial Stamp Act after months of protests from the Americans.
• Day 18-3 year 1925: The most violent single tornado in U.S. history, the “Tri-State Tornado,” hit Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois, killing 689 people and injuring 13,000 others.
• Day 18-3 year 1963: The Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
• Day 18-3 year 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
• Day 18-3 year 1967: The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast of England, spilling 919,000 barrels of oil into the sea.
• Day 18-3 year 1990: The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
• Day 18-3 year 2004: A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
• Day 18-3 year 2005: After a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.