About March 18
March 18, 2023 is the 77th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 329 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
- 1608 –Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1793 –The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- 1834 –Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
- 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.
- 1922 –In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1937 –The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
- 1937 –The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
- 1938 –Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
- 1944 –The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- 1946 –Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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