Page 10: Historical Events In March - 18

1995  Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement   

1995  Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada   

1995  STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½ days.   

1995  Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65   

1996  Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84.   

1997  Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die   

1997  Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92.   

2007  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.   

2013  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.   

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

2018  inaugural 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   

2018  Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Afrin   

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

2018  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.   

2018  In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term   

2020  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  [COVID-19 pandemic] The European Broadcasting Union announces that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be cancelled due to COVID-19 in Europe, the inaugural 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   

2025  27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100.   

2025  Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children, ending the ceasefire agreement reached in January   

2025  The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab, killing at least 10 people   

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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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  On this day in history birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

1578  On this day in history birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

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

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

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

0978  On this day in history 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 March - 18.   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on this day in history.   

1493  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on this day in history.   

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.