Neville Chamberlain Born, Meetup at Brenner Pass, Erich Fromm Dead

On this day: March 18

Declaration of the Paris Commune (1871)

Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders (1938)

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom (1940)

The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency (1968)

President B. Hussein Obama reads another Telepromter speech at a so-called "town hall meeting" of hand-picked unionists in Costa Mesa, California (2009)

b: Neville Chamberlain (1869), Martin Durkin (1894), Werner Mölders (1913); d: Erich Fromm (1980), King Umberto II of Italy (1983), Warren Christopher (2011)

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