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March 18

March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 288 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
Pre-160037 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor. • 417Pope Zosimus is elected following the death of Pope Innocent I. • 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead. • 1229Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade. • 1241First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city. • 1314Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. • 1438Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans. • 1571Valletta is made the capital city of Malta. 1601–19001608Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. • 1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia. • 1673 – English lord John Berkeley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers. • 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. • 1766American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. • 1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. • 1793Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden. • 1834Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. • 1848 – The premiere of William Henry Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of a grand opera by an American composer. • 1848 – Revolutions of 1848: A rebellion arises in Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city. • 1865American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. • 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris. • 1899Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering. 1901–present1901 – The Kumasi Mutiny of 1901 begins. • 1902Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic. • 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. • 1915World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. • 1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union. • 1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army. • 1921 – Mongolian Revolution of 1921: The Mongolian People's Army defeats local Chinese forces at Altanbulag, Selenge (then known as Maimachen). This battle was seen as the birthday of the People's Army and completed the expulsion of Chinese militants in Mongolia. • 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two. • 1925 – The 1925 Tri-State tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. • 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. • 1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities. • 1940World 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. • 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. • 1944Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers. • 1945 – World War II: 40th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 185th US Infantry Regiment, lands unopposed in Tigbauan, forcing the Japanese forces to surrender and General Macario Peralta and Gen. Gen. Eichelberger to declare the Liberation of Panay, Romblon and Guimaras. • 1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split. • 1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people. • 1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law. • 1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954. • 1965Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. • 1966United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people. • 1967 – The supertanker runs aground off the Cornish coast. • 1968Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. • 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. • 1970Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. • 1971Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. • 1974Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul, is torn down in the middle of the night. • 1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. • 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. • 1994Bosnia'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. • 1996A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. • 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. • 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. • 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. • 2025 – Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children. ==Births==
Births
Pre-16001075Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (died 1144) • 1495Mary Tudor, Queen of France (died 1533) • 1548Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (died 1616) • 1552Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (died 1610) • 1554Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (died 1588) • 1555Francis, Duke of Anjou (died 1584) • 1578Adam Elsheimer, German painter (died 1610) • 1590Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649) • 1597Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (died 1659) 1601–19001603Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (died 1697) • 1609Frederick III of Denmark (died 1670) • 1634Madame de La Fayette, French author (died 1693) • 1640Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1719) • 1657Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (died 1743) • 1690Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (died 1764) • 1701Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (died 1776) • 1733Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (died 1811) • 1780Miloš Obrenović, Serbian prince (died 1860) • 1782John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (died 1850) • 1789Charlotte Elliott, English poet, hymn writer, editor (died 1871) • 1798Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (died 1872) • 1800Harriet Smithson, Irish actress, the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz (died 1854) • 1813Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (died 1864) • 1814Jacob Bunn, American businessman (died 1897) • 1819James McCulloch, Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (died 1893) • 1820John Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist (died 1891) • 1823Antoine Chanzy, French general (died 1883) • 1828Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1908) • 1837Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (died 1908) • 1840William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (died 1901) • 1842Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (died 1898) • 1844Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (died 1908) • 1845Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (died 1904) • 1848Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (died 1938) • 1857Harriet Converse Moody, American businesswoman and arts patron (died 1932) • 1858Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (died 1913) • 1862Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (died 1915) • 1863William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (died 1941) • 1869Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940) • 1870Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (died 1917) • 1874Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian (died 1948) • 1877Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (died 1945) • 1877 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer (died 1945) • 1878Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (died 1956) • 1880Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (died 1947) • 1882Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (died 1973) • 1884Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (died 1968) • 1886Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1970) • 1890Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (died 1969) • 1893Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (died 1978) • 1893 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (died 1918) • 1899Marjorie Abbatt, English toy-maker and businesswoman (died 1991) 1901–present1901Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author and philosopher (died 1990) • 1901 – William Johnson, American painter (died 1970) • 1903Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1944) • 1903 – E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist (died 1944) • 1904Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author (died 1926) • 1905Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (died 1985) • 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (died 1958) • 1907John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (died 1997) • 1908Loulou Gasté, French composer (died 1995) • 1909Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (died 2007) • 1909 – C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (died 2004) • 1911Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1967) • 1912Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (died 2010) • 1913René Clément, French director and screenwriter (died 1996) • 1913 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (died 1941) • 1915Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (died 1996) • 1918Mitchell WerBell III, American mercenary (died 1983) • 1922Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (died 2015) • 1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (died 2006) • 1922 – Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (died 2020) • 1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (died 2011) • 1923Andy Granatelli, American race car driver and businessman (died 2013) • 1925Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician (died 2017) • 1925 – James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (died 2010) • 1926Peter Graves, American actor and director (died 2010) • 1927John Kander, American pianist and composer • 1937Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (died 2016) • 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (died 1975) • 1938Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter • 1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer (died 2017) • 1938 – Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor (died 2019) • 1938 – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver (died 2017) • 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (died 2006) • 1939Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager • 1939 – Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor • 1941Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (died 2006) • 1942Kathleen Collins, American filmmaker and playwright (died 1988) • 1942 – Jeff Mullins, American basketball player and coach • 1943Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (died 2006) • 1944Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (died 2012) • 1944 – Frank McRae, American football player and actor (died 2021) • 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic1945Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer (died 2020) • 1945 – Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host (died 2026) • 1945 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (died 2012) • 1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 2009) • 1946Michel Leclère, French race car driver • 1947Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright • 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter • 1947 – David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster • 1947 – Drew Struzan, American artist, illustrator and poster/cover designer (died 2025) • 1947 – B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (died 1990) • 1948Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach • 1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer • 1948 – Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (died 2005) • 1949Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture1950James Conlon, American conductor and educator • 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor • 1960Richard Biggs, American actor (died 2004) • 1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach • 1960 – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player • 1961Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017) • 1962Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor, producer, screenwriter, musician and martial artist • 1964Bonnie Blair, American speed skater • 1964 – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player • 1965David Cubitt, English-Canadian actor • 1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress • 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player • 1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager • 1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach • 1978Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player • 1978 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2014) • 1978 – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer • 1978 – Hu Jun, Chinese actor • 1978 – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster • 1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager • 1979Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality • 1980 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater • 1981Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete • 1981 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist • 1981 – Leslie Djhone, French sprinter • 1981 – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress • 1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player • 1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer • 1981 – Doug Warren, American soccer player • 1981 – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player • 1982Chad Cordero, American baseball player • 1982 – Timo Glock, German race car driver • 1982 – Matthew Lombardi, Canadian ice hockey player • 1982 – Mantorras, Angolan footballer • 1982 – Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter • 1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress • 1985Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver • 1985 – Duane Henry, English actor • 1986 – Eric Wood, American football player and sportscaster • 1987C. J. Miles, American basketball player • 1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer • 1989Robert Bortuzzo, Canadian ice hockey player • 1989 – Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer • 1989 – Lily Collins, English-American actress • 1991 – Leury García, Dominican baseball player • 1991 – Solomon Hill, American basketball player • 1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1991 – J. T. Realmuto, American baseball player • 1992Anthony Barr, American football player • 1992 – Trey Mancini, American baseball player • 1992 – Ryan Truex, American race car driver • 1992 – Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model • 1993Solo Sikoa, American wrestler • 1994Kris Dunn, American basketball player • 1994 – Ronnie Stanley, American football player • 1995Irina Bara, Romanian tennis player • 1995 – Julia Goldani Telles, American actress and dancer • 1997Ciara Bravo, American actress • 1997 – Ivica Zubac, Croatian basketball player • 1998Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball player • 1999Diogo Dalot, Portuguese footballer • 2002Brenden Rice, American football player ==Deaths==
Deaths
Pre-1600978Edward the Martyr, English king (born 962) • 1076Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (born 1018) • 1086Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (born 1036) • 1227Pope Honorius III (born 1148) • 1308Yuri I of Galicia1314Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (born 1244) • 1314 – Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar • 1321Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (born c. 1260/5) • 1582Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (born 1562) 1601–19001675Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (born 1606) • 1689John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (born 1607) • 1703Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (born 1645) • 1745Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676) • 1768Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (born 1713) • 1781Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1727) • 1793Karl Abraham Zedlitz, Prussian minister of education (born 1731) • 1823Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (born 1753) • 1835Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (born 1769) • 1845Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (born 1774) • 1871Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (born 1806) • 1898Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (born 1826) • 1900Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (born 1835) 1901–present1907Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1827) • 1913George I of Greece (born 1845) • 1918Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (born 1847) • 1930Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (born 1863) • 1936Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1864) • 1939Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (born 1859) • 1941Henri Cornet, French cyclist (born 1884) • 1947William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (born 1861) • 1954Walter Mead, English cricketer (born 1868) • 1956Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (born 1896) • 1962Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (born 1880) • 1963C. C. Martindale, English Jesuit priest (born 1879) • 1964Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1870) • 1965Farouk of Egypt (born 1920) • 1973Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (born 1880) • 1977Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (born 1938) • 1977 – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (born 1944) • 1978Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (born 1915) • 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (born 1892) • 1980Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900) • 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (born 1898) • 1982Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (born 1901) • 1983Umberto II of Italy (born 1904) • 1984Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (born 1933) • 1986Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (born 1914) • 1987Kari Diesen, Norwegian singer and revue actress (born 1914) • 1988Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (born 1917) • 1990Robin Harris, American comedian (born 1953) • 1993Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (born 1910) • 1996Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911) • 2000Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (born 1909) • 2001John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935) • 2002R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author (born 1914) • 2003Karl Kling, German race car driver (born 1910) • 2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (born 1939) • 2004Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (born 1927) • 2006Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (born 1922) • 2007Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (born 1948) • 2008Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (born 1954) • 2009Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (born 1980) • 2009 – Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (born 1963) • 2010Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (born 1924) • 2011Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (born 1925) • 2012Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (born 1918) • 2012 – William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1932) • 2012 – William G. Moore Jr., American general (born 1920) • 2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (born 1948) • 2013Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (born 1935) • 2013 – Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (born 1947) • 2013 – Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (born 1938) • 2014Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (born 1951) • 2014 – Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1953) • 2014 – Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (born 1943) • 2015Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1961) • 2015 – Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (born 1939) • 2015 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (born 1930) • 2016Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (born 1939) • 2016 – Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (born 1936) • 2016 – Tray Walker, American football player (born 1992) • 2016 – Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1961) • 2017Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926) • 2020Alfred Worden, American test pilot, engineer and astronaut (born 1932) • 2024Thomas P. Stafford, American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1930) • 2025Kanzi, Bonobo research subject (born 1980) • 2025 – Jessie Hoffman Jr., American convicted murderer (born 1978) ==Holidays and observances==
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