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
- 235 –Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
- 1229 –Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
- 1608 –Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871 –Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- 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 –Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1937 –The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2003 –British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
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