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.
- 1834 –Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 1850 –American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- 1906 –Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
- 1913 –King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- 1937 –The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- 1937 –The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
- 1945 –World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
- 1948 –Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- 1962 –The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
- 1965 –Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
- 1968 –Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 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.
- 1992 –White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
- 1996 –A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
- 2002 –U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
- 2003 –British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
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