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March 18: Day of the Week
March 18, 2024 was the 78th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 288 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
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 Event(s)
1241
Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1438
Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1893
Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
1938
Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1945
World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
1969
The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
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.
1992
White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
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.
Who were born on March 18?
1657
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
1690
Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
1938
Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor
1944
Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur and adventurer
1951
Bill Frisell, American jazz musician
1957
Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer
1976
Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler
1978
Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer
1980
Sebastien Frey, French footballer
1982
Timo Glock, German Formula One driver
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