18 Mairch

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 
 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 
 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 
 235 - Severus Alexander, Roman Emperor (b. 208)
 1227 - Pape Honorius III (b. 1148)
 1745 - Robert Walpole, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1676)
 1913 - George I o Greece (b. 1845)
 1965 - Farouk o Egyp (b. 1920)
 1980 - Erich Fromm, German social psychologist an philosopher (b. 1900)
 1983 - Umberto II o Italy (b. 1904)
 1996 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (b. 1911)
 2008 - Anthony Minghella, Inglis film director (b. 1954)
 2009 - Natasha Richardson, Inglis actress (b. 1963)
 2012 - George Tupou V, King o Tonga (b. 1948)
 2016 - Guido Westerwelle, German politeecian (b. 1961)
 2017 - Chuck Berry, American sangster an muisicker (b. 1926)

 Halidays 
 Flag Day (Aruba)

Category:Days o the year
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