This Day In History

March 18
1241
Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1922
In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
1948
Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
1962
The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
1974
Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1992
White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
1994
Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2003
In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.