The 18t o Mairch is the 77t day o the year (78t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 288 days ti come.
Events
1522: Amsterdam Island
1921: Poland's territorial gains
- 37 - Caligula becomes Roman Emperor.
- 1068 - A yirdquauk in the Middle East kills an estimatit 20,000 fowk.
- 1522 - Juan Sebastian Elcano discovers the later-named Amsterdam Island in the soothren Indie Ocean.
- 1913 - Assassination o George I o Greece.
- 1921 - The Pols-Soviet War ends wi the Peace o Riga: Poland gains territory.
- 1922 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is arrestit for ceevil disobedience.
- 1925 - The Tri-state tornado hits Missouri, Illinois an Indiana.
- 1953 - A yirdquauk in Wastren Turkey kills 265 fowk.
- 1967 - The tanker "Torrey Canyon" runs aground off Cornwall.
- 1969 - Alexey Leonov performs the first spacewalk.
- 1970 - In Cambodie, Lon Nol remuives Norodom Sihanouk frae pouer.
- 1971 - A landslide in Peru, intae Yanawayin Lake, kills 200 fowk.
- 1990 - First elections in East Germany.
- 1996 - A fire at a nichtclub in Quezon Ceety, the Philippines, kills 162 fowk.
- 2003 - George W. Bush declares the stairt o war in Iraq.
- 2012 - Joachim Gauck becomes Preses o Germany.
- 2015 - Militants carry oot a terrorist attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisie, killin 23 fowk, maist o them tourists.
- 2018 - Vladimir Putin is re-electit as Preses o Roushie.
- 2019 - Three fowk are kilt in a shuitin on a tram in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Births
F. W. de Klerk
- 1685 - Ralph Erskine, Scots kirkman (d. 1752)
- 1751 - Robert Hay-Drummond, 10t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer (d. 1804)
- 1782 - John C. Calhoun, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1850)
- 1828 - Randal Cremer, Inglis politeecian (d. 1908)
- 1837 - Grover Cleveland, 22nt an 24t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1908)
- 1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Roushie componer (d. 1908)
- 1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German ingineer an inventor (d. 1913)
- 1869 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1940)
- 1905 - Robert Donat, Inglis actor (d. 1958)
- 1922 - Egon Bahr, German politeecian (d. 2015)
- 1926 - Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1928 - Fidel V. Ramos, umwhile Preses o the Philippines
- 1931 - Ian McMillan, Scots fitbawer
- 1932 - John Updike, American writer (d. 2009)
- 1936 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, umwhile Preses o Sooth Africae
- 1945 - Michael Reagan, American radio host
- 1945 - Eric Woolfson, Scots sangwriter, lyricist an vocalist (d. 2009)
- 1956 - David Mach, Scots sculptor an installation airtist
- 1959 - Luc Besson, French film director, screenwriter an producer
- 1960 - James MacPherson, Scots actor
- 1966 - Joanna Cherry, Scots politeecian
- 1969 - Jimmy Morales, Preses o Guatemala
- 1970 - Queen Latifah, American sangster an actress
- 1972 - Reince Priebus, 27t White House Chief o Staff
- 1973 - Patrick Harvie, Scots politeecian
- 1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress, telly presenter an producer
- 1976 - Charlie Miller, Scots fitbawer
- 1980 - Natalia Poklonskaya, Deputy State Duma; Prosecutor the Republic o Crimea (2014–2016)
- 1981 - Fabian Cancellara, Swiss road bicycle racer
- 1982 - Timo Glock, German racin driver
- 1997 - Ciara Bravo, American actress
- 1998 - Ross McCrorie, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
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