About March 18
March 18, 2022 is the 77th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 310 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.
- 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.
- 1673 –John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
- 1766 –American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1945 –World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
- 1948 –Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
- 1962 –The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
- 1969 –The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1974 –Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- 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.
- 1996 –A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
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