18 March

Notable Births

Diogo Dalot

b. 1999

Portuguese footballer (born 1999)

Emmanuel Clase

b. 1998

Dominican baseball player (born 1998)

Ciara Bravo

b. 1997

American actress (born 1997)

Rieko Ioane

b. 1997

New Zealander rugby union player

Jordan Whitehead

b. 1997

American football player (born 1997)

Ivica Zubac

b. 1997

Croatian basketball player (born 1997)

Skal Labissière

b. 1996

Haitian basketball player (born 1996)

Irina Bara

b. 1995

Romanian tennis player (born 1995)

Julia Goldani Telles

b. 1995

American actress and ballet dancer

Kris Dunn

b. 1994

American basketball player (born 1994)

Ronnie Stanley

b. 1994

American football player (born 1994)

Solo Sikoa

b. 1993

American professional wrestler (born 1993)

Anthony Barr (American football)

b. 1992

American football player (born 1992)

Trey Mancini

b. 1992

American baseball player (born 1992)

Ryan Truex

b. 1992

American racing driver (born 1992)

Takuya Terada

b. 1992

Japanese singer and actor

Travis Frederick

b. 1991

American football player (born 1991)

Leury García

b. 1991

Dominican baseball player (born 1991)

Solomon Hill (basketball)

b. 1991

American basketball player (born 1991)

Dylan Mattingly

b. 1991

American composer and musician

Notable Deaths

Kanzi

d. 2025

Bonobo research subject (1980–2025)

Jessie Hoffman Jr.

d. 2025

American convicted rapist-killer executed in Louisiana (1978–2025)

Thomas P. Stafford

d. 2024

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)

Alfred Worden

d. 2020

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1932–2020)

Chuck Berry

d. 2017

American musician (1926–2017)

Jan Němec

d. 2016

Czech filmmaker (1936–2016)

Tray Walker

d. 2016

American football player (1992–2016)

Guido Westerwelle

d. 2016

German politician (1961–2016)

Thomas Hopko

d. 2015

American Eastern Orthodox theologian and priest (1939–2015)

Grace Ogot

d. 2015

Kenyan author (1930–2015)

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu

d. 2014

Nigerian writer (1951–2014)

Kaiser Kalambo

d. 2014

Zambian footballer and coach (1953-2014)

Lucius Shepard

d. 2014

American novelist (1943–2014)

MM Alam

d. 2013

Pakistani fighter pilot (1935–2013)

Clay Ford

d. 2013

American politician (1938–2013)

Furman Bisher

d. 2012

American sportswriter (1918–2012)

William R. Charette

d. 2012

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1932–2012)

William G. Moore Jr.

d. 2012

United States Air Force general

George Tupou V

d. 2012

King of Tonga from 2006 to 2012

Warren Christopher

d. 2011

American statesman and attorney (1925–2011)

On This Day in History

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2025

Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.

March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip

2015

The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

Bardo National Museum (Tunis)

2014

The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

Crimea

1997

The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.

Antonov An-24

1996

A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.

Ozone Disco fire

1994

Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1990

Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

East Germany

1990

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Art theft