What are the important events that happened on March 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 18 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 5, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,710,720,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontaoctagon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,105 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.
March 18 Historical Events
1241 –
Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
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.
1938 –
Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1942 –
The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
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.
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.
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.
2003 –
In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
Who were born on March 18?
1555 –
François, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
1640 –
Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1922 –
Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights movement figure
1927 –
John Kander, American songwriter
1929 –
Samuel Pisar, Polish author and Holocaust survivor
1931 –
John Fraser, Scottish actor
1947 –
Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 –
Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1950 –
Rod Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
1983 –
Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
Who died on March 18?
1583 –
King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
1584 –
Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
1936 –
Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece (b. 1864)
1939 –
Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
1941 –
Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1962 –
Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880)
1977 –
Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
1996 –
Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1999 –
Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
2006 –
Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
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