Historical Events In March - 18

1994  On March - 18 space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands   

1994  On March - 18 zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy   

1995  On this day in history michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement   

1995  On March - 18 spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada   

1995  On this day in history sTS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days   

1995  On March - 18 charles Drain, singer, dies at 65   

1996  Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1997  Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die on March - 18.   

1997  Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92 on this day in history.   

2007  On this day in history the 2007 Formula 1 World Championship Begins with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne   

2012  Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium on March - 18.   

2013  On this day in history explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria   

2014  Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks on this day in history.   

2018  Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term on this day in history.   

2018  First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrain in Tempe, Arizona on March - 18.   

2018  Bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia, destroys over 70 buildings on this day in history.   

2018  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Afrin on March - 18.   

2018  On this day in history serial bomber suspected after fourth bomb goes off in Austin, Texas, injuring two, total bombing death toll, 2 dead, 5 injured   

2018  On March - 18 uS Senator Amy Klobuchar calls on Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary in wake in data mining scandal with Cambridge Analytica   

2018  African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation on March - 18.   

2018  In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term on March - 18.   

2020  On this day in history uS President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world's longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19   

2020  On March - 18 [COVID-19 pandemic] The European Broadcasting Union announces that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be cancelled due to COVID-19 in Europe, the first cancellation in the contest's 64-year history.   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] Solidarity trial, a WHO-sponsored group dedicated to finding a cure against COVID-19, is announced by Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom on this day in history.   

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1380  On March - 18 birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint   

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on March - 18.   

1548  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

1602  On this day in history birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  On March - 18 death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on March - 18.   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on March - 18.   

1314  On this day in history jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  On this day in history john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  On this day in history death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched   

1583  On this day in history death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on March - 18.