Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18
This is a list of selected March 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Traian Vuia's monoplane
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Flag Day in Aruba (1976) | refimprove |
| 1229 – Sixth Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II crowned himself King of Jerusalem, despite the fact that his infant son Conrad was the rightful heir. | refimprove section |
| 1314 – King Philip IV of France had Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burned alive. | refimprove section |
| 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg became King of the Romans, ruler of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire. | needs more footnotes |
| 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was destroyed by a fire supposedly set by slaves, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. | refimprove |
| 1871 – French president Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune government. | unreferenced section |
| 1968 – The United States abandoned the gold standard. | globalize, refimprove sections |
| 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov donned a space suit and ventured outside the Soviet Voskhod 2 spacecraft, becoming the first person to walk in space. | POTD for 2020 |
| 1970 – The National Assembly of Cambodia ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk as head of state, and Prime Minister Lon Nol invoked emergency powers to take over. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelmed the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces in the Battle of Chmielnik and plundered the abandoned city of Kraków.
- 1793 – War of the First Coalition: Habsburg Austrians together with Dutch Republic troops repulsed a series of French assaults after bitter fighting in Neerwinden, present-day Belgium.
- 1892 – Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
- 1906 – Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
- 1921 – The Polish–Soviet War, which determined the borders between the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, formally concluded with the signing of the Peace of Riga.
- 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado spawned in Missouri, traveled over 219 miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, and killed 695 along the way, making it the tornado with the longest continuous track ever recorded and the deadliest in U.S. history.
- 1938 – Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas created Pemex, the national petroleum company, by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1977 - Punk group The Clash released their first single, "White Riot", described as their "most controversial song".
- 1985 – The first episode of the soap opera Neighbours was broadcast on the Seven Network, eventually becoming the longest-running drama in Australian television history.
- 1996 – The deadliest fire in Philippine history burned a nightclub in Quezon City, leaving 162 dead.
- 2005 – As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
- Born/died this day: Edward the Martyr (d. 978) · Matthew III Csák (d. 1321) · Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (b. 1844) · Clem Hill (b. 1877) · Edgar Cayce (b. 1877) · Unita Blackwell (b. 1933) · Vanessa Williams (b. 1963) · Minnie Pwerle (d. 2006)
March 18: Feast day of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (Christianity)
- 1068 – An estimated 20,000 people died across the Near East when a violent earthquake struck the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba.
- 1834 – The Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to transportation to Australia for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society in Dorset, England.
- 1915 – First World War: In one of the largest naval battles of the Gallipoli campaign, Ottoman forces sank three Allied battleships (French battleship Bouvet pictured) and severely damaged three others.
- 1970 – U.S. postal workers began an eight-day strike after Congress raised their wages by only 4 percent despite increasing its own pay by 41 percent.
- 1990 – Thieves stole thirteen works of art collectively valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (d. 1781) · John Plankinton (b. 1820) · Edith Mayo (b. 1940)