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
- 1229 –Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
- 1314 –Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
- 1438 –Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1608 –Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- 1965 –Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
- 2003 –FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
- 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?
- 1939 –Kenny Lynch, British entertainer
- 1950 –Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1950 –John Hartman, American drummer (Doobie Brothers)
- 1961 –Grant Hart, American musician (Hüsker Dü)
- 1962 –Brian Fisher, American baseball player
- 1979 –Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
- 1980 –Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
- 1982 –Timo Glock, German Formula One driver
- 1984 –Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
- 1986 –Lykke Li, Swedish singer
Who died on March 18?
- 1696 –Robert Charnock, English conspirator
- 1746 –Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
- 1781 –Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
- 1936 –Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece (b. 1864)
- 1973 –Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)
- 1977 –José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
- 1988 –Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
- 1990 –Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)
- 2002 –Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
- 2008 –Anthony Minghella, British film director (b. 1954)
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