Historical Events In March - 18

1994  Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands on this day in history.  

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

1995  Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement on this day in history.  

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

1995  STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days on this day in history.  

1995  Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65 on March - 18.  

1996  Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84 on March - 18.  

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 March - 18.  

2007  On March - 18 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  Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria on March - 18.  

2014  On March - 18 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 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 this day in history.  

2018  In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term on this day in history.  

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 March - 18 [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 this day in history birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint  

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.  

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)  

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  On March - 18 birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized  

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.  

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)  

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.  

0978  On this day in history death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15  

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies  

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.  

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

1582  On March - 18 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 March - 18 ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53