What are the important events that happened on March 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 18 is the 78^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 5, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 475,200 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontaoctagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 317 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,105 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.

March 18 Historical Events

• 235 –
  Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
• 1766 –
  American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1865 –
  American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 1945 –
  World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
• 1974 –
  Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1989 –
  In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
• 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, Massachusetts.
• 1997 –
  The 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 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
• 2002 –
  U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
• 2003 –
  FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.

Who were born on March 18?

• 1685 –
  Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
• 1780 –
  Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
• 1919 –
  Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
• 1922 –
  Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights movement figure
• 1950 –
  Brad Dourif, American actor
• 1960 –
  Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 –
  Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
• 1976 –
  Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler
• 1977 –
  Willy Sagnol, French footballer
• 1986 –
  Lykke Li, Swedish singer

Who died on March 18?

• 1689 –
  John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
• 1745 –
  Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
• 1768 –
  Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
• 1941 –
  Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1964 –
  Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
• 1986 –
  Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
• 1999 –
  Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
• 2001 –
  John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
• 2006 –
  Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)
• 2008 –
  Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981)