About March 18
March 18, 2024 is the 78th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 317 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.
What Happened On March 18
- 1229 –Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
- 1241 –Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
- 1314 –Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
- 1871 –Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- 1874 –Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
- 1906 –Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
- 1921 –The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
- 1922 –In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
- 1937 –The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- 1944 –The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- 1962 –The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
- 1968 –Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 1970 –Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 1971 –In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
- 1974 –Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- 1980 –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.
- 1989 –In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
- 1992 –White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
- 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 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
- 2003 –British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
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