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The following events took place on March 18. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.

• 1944

  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• 1946

  Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1948

  Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
• 1953

  An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• 1959

  President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
• 1962

  The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• 1965

  Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• 1967

  The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1968

  Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• 1969

  The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970

  Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1970

  The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
• 1971

  In Peru a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 1974

  Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1980

  At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
• 1985

  First episode of Neighbours broadcast.
• 1990

  Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
• 1990

  In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
• 1992

  In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.
• 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.
• 1996

  A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• 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 and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
• 2014

  The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
• 2015

  The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

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