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
- 37 –The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
- 235 –Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
- 1608 –Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1766 –American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
- 1874 –Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
- 1893 –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.
- 1915 –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.
- 1925 –The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- 1937 –The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- 1940 –World War II: Axis Powers – 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1992 –White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
- 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 –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.
- 2003 –In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
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