Historical Events In March - 18

1994  Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands on March - 18.  

1994  On this day in history zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy  

1995  On March - 18 michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement  

1995  Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada on this day in history.  

1995  STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days on March - 18.  

1995  On this day in history charles Drain, singer, dies at 65  

1996  On this day in history alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84  

1997  Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die on this day in history.  

1997  On this day in history willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92  

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

2012  On this day in history superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium  

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

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

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  On March - 18 first fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrain in Tempe, Arizona  

2018  Bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia, destroys over 70 buildings on March - 18.  

2018  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Afrin on this day in history.  

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

2018  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 in the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term.  

2020  On March - 18 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  On this day in history [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.  

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

1395  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1548  On March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet  

1556  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant  

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.  

1590  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)  

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.  

0235  On this day in history death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered  

0978  On March - 18 death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15  

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on this day in history.  

1314  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies  

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

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

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)  

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53