Historical Events on March 18, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on March 18th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2015 | The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. |
| 2014 | The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. |
| 1997 | The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. |
| 1996 | A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. |
| 1994 | Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 1990 | Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. |
| 1990 | In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. |
| 1980 | A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. |
| 1971 | Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. |
| 1970 | Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. |
| 1969 | The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. |
| 1968 | Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. |
| 1967 | The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. |
| 1966 | United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people. |
| 1965 | Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
| 1962 | The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954. |
| 1959 | The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law. |
| 1953 | An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people. |
| 1948 | Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split. |
| 1944 | Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers. |
| 1942 | The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. |
| 1940 | World War II: 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. |
| 1938 | Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities. |
| 1937 | The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children. |
| 1937 | Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. |
| 1925 | The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. |
| 1922 | In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two. |
| 1921 | The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union. |
| 1921 | The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army. |
| 1915 | World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. |
| 1913 | King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. |
| 1902 | Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic. |
| 1899 | Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering. |
| 1874 | The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights. |
| 1871 | Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris. |
| 1865 | American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. |
| 1848 | The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of an grand opera by an American composer. |
| 1848 | March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives. |
| 1834 | Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. |
| 1793 | The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. |
| 1793 | Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden. |
| 1766 | American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. |
| 1741 | New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. |
| 1673 | English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers |
| 1644 | The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia. |
| 1608 | Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. |
| 1571 | Valletta is made the capital city of Malta. |
| 1438 | Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans. |
| 1314 | Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. |
| 1241 | First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city. |
| 1229 | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade. |
| 1068 | An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead. |
| 37 | Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor. |
Famous People Born on March 18
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Ciara Bravo, American actress |
| 1975 | Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer |
| 1925 | James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010) |
| 1989 | Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 1991 | Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player |
| 1962 | Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player |
| 1837 | Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908) |
| 1905 | Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985) |
| 1971 | Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster |
| 1981 | Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player |
Famous People Deaths On March 18
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 18. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1768 | Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713) |
| 2016 | Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
| 1227 | Pope Honorius III (b. 1148) |
| 1703 | Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (b. 1645) |
| 2004 | Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927) |
| 1582 | Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562) |
| 1973 | Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880) |
| 2009 | Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980) |
| 1956 | Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896) |
| 2017 | Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926) |
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