Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18

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  Adolphe Thiers
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  Adolphe Thiers
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  Adolphe Thiers
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  Bouvet capsizing after striking a mine during the Gallipoli campaign
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  1893 version of the Stanley Cup
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  Current version of the Stanley Cup
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  Jacques de Molay
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  A plaque in London, Ontario commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs
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  Pemex Executive Tower, Mexico City
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  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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  House with Chimaeras

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Blurb	Reason
Flag Day in Aruba (1976)	refimprove
1068 – An estimated 20,000 people died across the Near East when a violent earthquake struck the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba.	Article says death toll is combined with a May quake.
1229 – Sixth Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]] crowned himself King of Jerusalem, despite the fact that his infant son Conrad was the rightful heir.	refimprove section
1314 – King Philip IV of France had Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burned alive.	refimprove section
1438 – Albert II of Habsburg became King of the Romans, ruler of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire.	needs more footnotes
1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was destroyed by a fire supposedly set by slaves, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.	refimprove
1793 – War of the First Coalition: Habsburg and Dutch Republic troops repulsed a series of French assaults after bitter fighting near Neerwinden in present-day Belgium.	Date not cited
1834 – The Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to transportation to Australia for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society in Dorset, England.	Date not mentioned in article
1871 – French president Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune government.	unreferenced section
1921 – The Polish–Soviet War, which determined the borders between the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, formally concluded with the signing of the Peace of Riga.	neutrality issues
1938 – Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas issued a decree expropriating foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities, which were later incorporated into Pemex, a state-owned petroleum company.	Too much uncited
1968 – The United States abandoned the gold standard.	globalize, refimprove sections
1970 – The National Assembly of Cambodia ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk as head of state, and Prime Minister Lon Nol invoked emergency powers to take over.	multiple issues
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |b|1844|	Birthday not cited

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• 1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongol forces defeated the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków at the Battle of Chmielnik.
• 1838 – The British soldier-explorer John Wood came close to rediscovering the ancient Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum in modern Afghanistan.
• 1892 – Canadian governor general Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award to Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
• 1901 – The construction of the House with Chimaeras (pictured) commenced in Kyiv.
• 1915 – First World War: In one of the largest naval battles of the Gallipoli campaign, Ottoman forces sank three Allied battleships and severely damaged three others.
• 1959 – Tibetan uprising: After the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, Chinese forces bombarded the monastery, inflicting severe destruction and killing hundreds of Buddhist monks.
• 1921 – Russian Civil War: Bolshevik forces suppressed a rebellion of sailors and civilians in Kronstadt.
• 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ventured outside the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2, becoming the first person to walk in space.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970 – U.S. postal workers began an eight-day strike after Congress raised their wages by only 4 percent despite increasing its own pay by 41 percent.
• 1985 – The first episode of the soap opera Neighbours was broadcast on the Seven Network, later becoming the longest-running drama in Australian television history.
• 1990 – Unidentified thieves stole thirteen works of art collectively valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (pictured) in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1996 – The deadliest fire in Philippine history broke out at a nightclub in Quezon City, causing 162 deaths.
• 2005 – As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
• Born/died this day: | Edward the Martyr |d|978| Charlotte Elliott |b|1789| John Plankinton |b|1820| Randal Cremer |b|1828| Harriet Converse Moody |b|1857| Edgar Cayce |b|1877| Marcellin Berthelot |d|1907| Unita Blackwell |b|1933 |F. W. de Klerk |b|1936 |Edith Mayo |b|1940 Hiroh Kikai |b|1945| Vanessa Williams |b|1963| Elsa Goveia |d|1980| Minnie Pwerle |d|2006

March 18: Feast day of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (Christianity) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 363 – A fire began in Rome that resulted in the destruction of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus.
• 1277 – Charles I of Anjou acquired a claim on the Kingdom of Jerusalem in exchange for a significant sum of money.
• 1906 – Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane (pictured) with an unassisted takeoff.
• 1925 – The deadliest tornado in U.S. history spawned in Missouri and traveled more than 219 miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, leaving one of the longest continuous tornado tracks ever recorded.
• 1977 – The punk group the Clash released their first single, "White Riot", described as their "most controversial song" due to its lyrics about class economics and race.
• 2019 – Syrian civil war: The U.S. Air Force carried out an airstrike in al-Baghuz Fawqani, killing as many as 80, a disputed number of whom were civilians.