This Day, That Year – March 18

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for twelve minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space on this day in 1965.

Did you know that:

• First public bus service, established by Blaise Pascal, began operating in Paris as the “Carrosses a Cinq Sous” on this day in 1662
• David Melville patented an apparatus for making coal gas on this day in 1813
• Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor of the diesel engine, was born on this day in 1858