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
- 1673 –John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
- 1874 –Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
- 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.
- 1906 –Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
- 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.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- 1968 –Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 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.
Who were born on March 18?
- 1395 –John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
- 1904 –Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
- 1947 –Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
- 1955 –Francis G. Slay, American politician
- 1960 –Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1963 –Keith Brown, English cricketer
- 1963 –Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
- 1975 –Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1978 –Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player
- 1979 –Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
Who died on March 18?
- 1314 –Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)
- 1845 –Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
- 1898 –Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
- 1933 –Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer (b. 1873)
- 1939 –Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
- 1975 –Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
- 2002 –Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
- 2006 –Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)
- 2007 –Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948)
- 2008 –Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981)
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