About March 18

March 18, 2025 is the 77th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 336 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.
  • 1314 –
    Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
  • 1865 –
    American 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 evacuation of Paris.
  • 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.
  • 1922 –
    In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
  • 1937 –
    The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
  • 1938 –
    Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
  • 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.
  • 1967 –
    The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
  • 1969 –
    The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
  • 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.
  • 1994 –
    Bosnia’s Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • 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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