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This day in history: 18 March

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Key facts

385 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 18 March.
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2025: Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)

Christian feast day: Alexander of Jerusalem

Christian feast day: Anselm of Lucca

Christian feast day: Blessed Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller

Christian feast day: Cyril of Jerusalem

Christian feast day: Edward the Martyr

Christian feast day: Fridianus

Christian feast day: March 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Salvator

Flag Day (Aruba)

Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia)

Events

2025Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.

2015The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

2014The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

1997The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.

1996A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.

1994Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1990Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

1990In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

1980A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.

1974Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul, is torn down in the middle of the night.

1971Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.

1970Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

1969The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

1968Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

1967The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.

1966United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people.

1965Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

1962The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.

1959The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.

1953An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.

1948Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.

1945World War II: 40th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 185th US Infantry Regiment, lands unopposed in Tigbauan, forcing the Japanese forces to surrender and General Macario Peralta and Gen. Gen. Eichelberger to declare the Liberation of

1944Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.

1942The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

1940World 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.

1938Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.

1937Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.

1937The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.

1925The 1925 Tri-State tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

1922In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.

1921Mongolian Revolution of 1921: The Mongolian People's Army defeats local Chinese forces at Altanbulag, Selenge (then known as Maimachen). This battle was seen as the birthday of the People's Army and completed the expulsion of Chinese milita

1921The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.

1921The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.

1915World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

1913King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.

1902Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.

1901The Kumasi Mutiny of 1901 begins.

1899Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.

1871Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.

1865American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.

Born on this day

2002Brenden Rice, American football player

1999Diogo Dalot, Portuguese footballer

1998Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball player

1997Ciara Bravo, American actress

1997Ivica Zubac, Croatian basketball player

1997Jordan Whitehead, American football player

1997Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player

1996Skal Labissière, Haitian basketball player

1995Irina Bara, Romanian tennis player

1995Julia Goldani Telles, American actress and dancer

1994Kris Dunn, American basketball player

1994Ronnie Stanley, American football player

1993Solo Sikoa, American wrestler

1992Anthony Barr, American football player

1992Ryan Truex, American race car driver

1992Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model

1992Trey Mancini, American baseball player

1991Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1991J. T. Realmuto, American baseball player

1991Leury García, Dominican baseball player

1991Solomon Hill, American basketball player

1991Travis Frederick, American football player

1989Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer

1989Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter

1989Lily Collins, English-American actress

1989Ming Xi, Chinese model

1989Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer

1989Robert Bortuzzo, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer

1987C. J. Miles, American basketball player

1987Rebecca Soni, American swimmer

1986Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer

1986Cory Schneider, American ice hockey player

1986Eric Wood, American football player and sportscaster

1986Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter

1985Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver

1985Duane Henry, English actor

1985Marvin Humes, English singer

1985Vince Lia, Australian footballer

1984Rajeev Ram, American tennis player

Died on this day

2025Jessie Hoffman Jr., American convicted murderer (born 1978)

2025Kanzi, Bonobo research subject (born 1980)

2024Thomas P. Stafford, American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1930)

2020Alfred Worden, American test pilot, engineer and astronaut (born 1932)

2017Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926)

2016Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (born 1939)

2016Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1961)

2016Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (born 1936)

2016Tray Walker, American football player (born 1992)

2015Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (born 1930)

2015Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (born 1939)

2015Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (born 1961)

2014Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (born 1951)

2014Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1953)

2014Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (born 1943)

2013Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (born 1938)

2013Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (born 1947)

2013Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (born 1935)

2012Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (born 1918)

2012George Tupou V of Tonga (born 1948)

2012William G. Moore Jr., American general (born 1920)

2012William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1932)

2011Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (born 1925)

2010Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (born 1924)

2009Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (born 1963)

2009Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (born 1980)

2008Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (born 1954)

2007Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (born 1948)

2006Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (born 1922)

2004Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (born 1927)

Quote of the day

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what is left and live it properly.”

Marcus Aurelius

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