March 18
People born on this day are Pisces.
- 1969
The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
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Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
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Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
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Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul, is torn down in the middle of the night.
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A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
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Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
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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.
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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.
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A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
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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.
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The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
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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.
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1999Diogo Dalot, Portuguese footballer
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1998Emmanuel Clase, Dominican baseball player
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1997Ciara Bravo, American actress
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1997Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player
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1997Jordan Whitehead, American football player
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1997Ivica Zubac, Croatian basketball player
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1997Cary and Michael Huang, the twins who founded BFDI
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1996Skal Labissière, Haitian basketball player
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1995Irina Bara, Romanian tennis player
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1995Julia Goldani Telles, American actress and dancer
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1994Kris Dunn, American basketball player
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1994Ronnie Stanley, American football player
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