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)