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, 28,512,000 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 ‘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
- 37 –The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
- 1850 –American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
- 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.
- 1938 –Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
- 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.
- 1970 –Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 2002 –U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
- 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?
- 1780 –Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
- 1886 –Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1925 –James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (d. 2010)
- 1926 –Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1926 –Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1927 –John Kander, American songwriter
- 1962 –Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
- 1962 –Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
- 1982 –Chad Cordero, American baseball player
- 1991 –Dylan Mattingly, American composer and musician
Who died on March 18?
- 1584 –Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
- 1745 –Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
- 1823 –Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)
- 1845 –Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
- 1918 –Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (b. 1847)
- 1947 –William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- 1963 –Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
- 2001 –John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
- 2002 –Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
- 2006 –Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)
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