March 18 Events |
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| March 18th, 2037 (March 18 2037) | Event | The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius will and proclaims Caligula emperor. | |
| March 18th, 2005 (March 18 2005) | Event | Terri Schiavo s feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband. | |
| March 18th, 2003 (March 18 2003) | Event | The Iraq War begins. | |
| March 18th, 2003 (March 18 2003) | Event | FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company s top executives. | |
| March 18th, 2003 (March 18 2003) | Event | British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language. | |
| March 18th, 1997 (March 18 1997) | Event | 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 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s. | |
| March 18th, 1996 (March 18 1996) | Event | A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162. | |
| March 18th, 1990 (March 18 1990) | Event | In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| March 18th, 1989 (March 18 1989) | Event | In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. | |
| March 18th, 1980 (March 18 1980) | Event | At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. | |
| March 18th, 1974 (March 18 1974) | Event | Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. | |
| March 18th, 1971 (March 18 1971) | Event | A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200. | |
| March 18th, 1970 (March 18 1970) | Event | Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. | |
| March 18th, 1968 (March 18 1968) | Event | Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. | |
| March 18th, 1967 (March 18 1967) | Event | The Supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. | |
| March 18th, 1965 (March 18 1965) | Event | Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. | |
| March 18th, 1962 (March 18 1962) | Event | The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954. | |
| March 18th, 1959 (March 18 1959) | Event | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| March 18th, 1953 (March 18 1953) | Event | An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250. | |
| March 18th, 1948 (March 18 1948) | Event | Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split. | |
| March 18th, 1946 (March 18 1946) | Event | Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established. | |
| March 18th, 1945 (March 18 1945) | Event | World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin. | |
| March 18th, 1944 (March 18 1944) | Event | The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes. | |
| March 18th, 1940 (March 18 1940) | Event | World War II: Axis PowersAdolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| March 18th, 1938 (March 18 1938) | Event | Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders. | |
| March 18th, 1937 (March 18 1937) | Event | The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children. | |
| March 18th, 1937 (March 18 1937) | Event | Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. | |
| March 18th, 1937 (March 18 1937) | Event | The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan. | |
| March 18th, 1925 (March 18 1925) | Event | The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. | |
| March 18th, 1922 (March 18 1922) | Event | In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years. | |
| March 18th, 1922 (March 18 1922) | Event | The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City. | |
| March 18th, 1921 (March 18 1921) | Event | The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union. | |
| March 18th, 1915 (March 18 1915) | Event | World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. | |
| March 18th, 1913 (March 18 1913) | Event | King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. | |
| March 18th, 1909 (March 18 1909) | Event | Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster. | |
| March 18th, 1906 (March 18 1906) | Event | Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft. | |
| March 18th, 1893 (March 18 1893) | Event | Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams. | |
| March 18th, 1874 (March 18 1874) | Event | Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights. | |
| March 18th, 1871 (March 18 1871) | Event | Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris. | |
| March 18th, 1865 (March 18 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time. | |
| March 18th, 1850 (March 18 1850) | Event | American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. | O. Henry Quotes |
| March 18th, 1834 (March 18 1834) | Event | Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. | |
| March 18th, 1793 (March 18 1793) | Event | The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. | |
| March 18th, 1781 (March 18 1781) | Event | Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92 | |
| March 18th, 1766 (March 18 1766) | Event | American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, which had been very unpopular in the British colonies. | |
| March 18th, 1673 (March 18 1673) | Event | John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. | |
| March 18th, 1608 (March 18 1608) | Event | Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. | |
| March 18th, 1438 (March 18 1438) | Event | Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany. | |
| March 18th, 1325 (March 18 1325) | Event | According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms. | |
| March 18th, 1314 (March 18 1314) | Event | Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. | Jacques de Molay Quotes |
| March 18th, 1241 (March 18 1241) | Event | Krakow is ravaged by Mongols. | |
| March 18th, 1229 (March 18 1229) | Event | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade. | |
