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 77^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 5, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,037,600 minutes 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 ‘heptacontaheptagon’ 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 336 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 4,470 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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

• 1438 –
  Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1850 –
  American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
• 1874 –
  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
• 1913 –
  King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• 1944 –
  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• 1959 –
  President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
• 1967 –
  The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1974 –
  Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 2003 –
  British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
• 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.

Who were born on March 18?

• 1929 –
  John Macurdy, American bass
• 1937 –
  Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
• 1938 –
  Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1944 –
  Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military figure and politician
• 1951 –
  Ben Cohen, American ice cream maker
• 1957 –
  Christer Fuglesang, Swedish astronaut
• 1969 –
  Andy Cutting, English folk musician and composer
• 1974 –
  Laure Savasta, French basketball player
• 1984 –
  Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
• 1996 –
  Madeline Carroll, American actress

Who died on March 18?

• 1314 –
  Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)
• 1689 –
  John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
• 1715 –
  William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish patriot politician and landowner. (b. 1654)
• 1768 –
  Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
• 1964 –
  Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
• 1965 –
  Jack Quinlan, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
• 1965 –
  King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1969 –
  Barbara Bates, American film actress (b. 1925)
• 1988 –
  Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
• 1996 –
  Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)