Notable Historical Events on March 18th
March 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
37 |
The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. |
417 |
St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
731 |
St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1123 |
1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome, agreements of the Concordat of Worms ratified |
1167 |
Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians |
1184 |
Battle of Ichi-no-Tani near Kobe, Japan |
1190 |
Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds, England |
1229 |
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II crowns himself King of Jerusalem |
1241 |
Kraków is ravaged by Mongols. |
1314 |
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. |
1325 |
According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms. |
1438 |
Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany |
1509 |
Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands |
1532 |
English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome |
1541 |
Hernando de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River) |
1582 |
Prince William of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp |
1583 |
Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty |
1608 |
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. |
1673 |
Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers |
1754 |
Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier |
1773 |
Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London |
1781 |
Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92 |
1793 |
2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France |
1793 |
The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. |
1810 |
"Converse", 1st US opera, premieres in NY |
1813 |
David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas |
1818 |
Congress approves 1st pensions for government service |
1834 |
1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long) |
1834 |
Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. |
1835 |
Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass |
1847 |
1st Dutch public telegram |
1850 |
Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo |
1858 |
Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns |
1859 |
Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform |
1864 |
Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240 |
1865 |
Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL |
1865 |
Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time |
1870 |
1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California) |
1871 |
Communards revolt in Paris |
1874 |
Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights. |
1877 |
President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC |
1881 |
Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden) |
1882 |
Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone |
1890 |
1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) |
1891 |
Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone |
1892 |
Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) |
1895 |
200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia |
1899 |
Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering |
1900 |
Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms |
1900 |
Japan uses its influence over the government of Korea to deny Russia's efforts to obtain a concession for a naval station at the Korean Port of Masampo, a step in the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war |
1902 |
Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record |
1902 |
Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna |
1902 |
Turkey grants Germany syndicate the first concession to construct a railroad through Turkish territory to Baghdad, to be linked to Berlin |
1903 |
Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders |
1904 |
1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" |
1909 |
Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
1909 |
Russia and Bulgaria reach an agreement in which late 19th century Russian financial claims are cancelled to meet compensation due to Turkey from Bulgaria |
1910 |
1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC |
1911 |
North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
1913 |
King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. |
1914 |
White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China |
1915 |
Failed British attack in Dardanelles |
1915 |
French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed |
1918 |
Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms |
1918 |
Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam |
1919 |
Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City |
1920 |
Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar |
1921 |
2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged |
1921 |
Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 |
1922 |
1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale) |
1922 |
British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience |
1922 |
WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City. |
1925 |
(8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689 |
1929 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon" premieres in Leningrad |
1930 |
Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game |
1931 |
1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick) |
1931 |
Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain |
1933 |
Radio Clube de Mocambique's 1st radio transmission |
1933 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
1933 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
1937 |
Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die |
1937 |
The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan. |
1938 |
Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties |
1938 |
NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women |
1938 |
Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies |
1940 |
Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain |
1942 |
Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters |
1942 |
2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out |
1943 |
James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks |
1943 |
Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
1943 |
Agnes Moorehead appears in "Sorry, Wrong Number" on the radio program "Suspense", her most successful appearance |
1944 |
Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
1944 |
2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store |
1945 |
1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin |
1945 |
Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals |
1945 |
US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu |
1948 |
France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
1948 |
Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting |
1948 |
Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split. |
1949 |
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified |
1949 |
WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
"Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances |
1950 |
CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship |
1951 |
Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1952 |
1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila) |
1952 |
Communist offensive in Korea |
1953 |
15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68 |
1953 |
Boston Braves move to Milwaukee |
1953 |
Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die |
1953 |
KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903) |
1955 |
I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan |
1957 |
WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins |
1958 |
Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 |
1959 |
Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws |
1959 |
President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill |
1961 |
Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced |
1962 |
Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees |
1962 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR |
1963 |
"Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances |
1963 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1963 |
WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
"Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances |
1965 |
Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination |
1965 |
USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins) |
1965 |
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
1966 |
"Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances |
1966 |
General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
1966 |
Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 |
1967 |
Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1 |
1967 |
Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off Cornwall & spills oil |
1968 |
Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
1968 |
WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
"Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1970 |
Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees |
1970 |
KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
1970 |
Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history |
1970 |
NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time |
1970 |
Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland |
1971 |
200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru |
1972 |
AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 |
1972 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1972 |
Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U) |
1972 |
Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game |
1972 |
Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy" |
1973 |
"Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances |
1973 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
1974 |
Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US |
1975 |
Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
1977 |
Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot" |
1977 |
US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia |
1977 |
Vietnam hands over MIA to US |
1978 |
250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario Calif |
1978 |
Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death |
1979 |
"On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs |
1979 |
Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran |
1979 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
1980 |
Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 |
1981 |
Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto) |
1982 |
Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident |
1984 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open |
1985 |
Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC |
1985 |
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle |
1986 |
Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld |
1986 |
Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money |
1987 |
Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew) |
1987 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth |
1989 |
California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios |
1989 |
Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game |
1989 |
In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. |
1990 |
Largest ever art robbery at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. 13 works valued over $500 million are stolen |
1990 |
1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists |
1990 |
32-day lockout by baseball owners ends |
1990 |
A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch |
1990 |
Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open |
1991 |
Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round |
1991 |
Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey |
1991 |
Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
1992 |
"4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf |
1992 |
Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1992 |
Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion |
1992 |
Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury |
1993 |
"Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs |
1993 |
Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion |
1993 |
Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets |
1994 |
South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands |
1994 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy |
1995 |
Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement |
1995 |
STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days |
1996 |
50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96 |
1996 |
A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162. |
1997 |
Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die |
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. |
2003 |
British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language. |
2005 |
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband. |
2012 |
Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium |
2012 |
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly |
2013 |
Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria |
2013 |
A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in Mogadishu, Somalia |
2013 |
98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings |
2014 |
Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks |
2014 |
Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation |
2014 |
Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty |
2014 |
US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats |
2016 |
North Korea Fires Missile Into Sea, South Korea Says |
2018 |
China's Premier Li re-elected by parliament to premiership |
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