About March 18
March 18, 2024 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.
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Pisces is the sun 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.
If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.
What Happened On March 18
- 1229 –Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
- 1793 –The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- 1834 –Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 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.
- 1913 –King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- 1921 –The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 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.
- 1942 –The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1944 –The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- 1946 –Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1948 –Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
- 1953 –An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
- 1965 –Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
- 1967 –The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
- 1989 –In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
- 1996 –A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
- 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.
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