March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL AWKWARD MOMENTS DAY
NATIONAL AWKWARD MOMENTS DAY
1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. ― From stamp-act-history.com
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. ― From stamp-act-history.com
1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 – Former Governor General Frederick Arthur (Lord) Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. ― From ustornadoes.com
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1940 – World War II: 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. If government actions were called what they really were, no one would agree with them.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. If government actions were called what they really were, no one would agree with them.
1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 – The Torrey Canyon, an LR2 Suezmax Class oil tanker with a cargo capacity for 120,000 tons, runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 – Gold standard: Under President Lyndon Johnson, the U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1968 – Gold standard: Under President Lyndon Johnson, the U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The case is still unsolved.
1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favor of ending apartheid.
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The case is still unsolved.
1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favor of ending apartheid.
1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosniaand the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
BORN TODAY
1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
1782 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States (d. 1908)
1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1927 – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
1782 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States (d. 1908)
1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1927 – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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