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Events

• 1608 (418 years ago) Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1861 (165 years ago) Spain would annex annex the Dominican Republic, which would last for four years.
• 1937 (89 years ago) Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
• 1953 (73 years ago) An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
• 1969 (57 years ago) The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 1994 (32 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1837 (189 years ago) Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (died 1908)
• 1842 (184 years ago) Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (died 1898)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (died 1908)
• 1858 (168 years ago) Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (died 1913)
• 1869 (157 years ago) Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940)
• 1932 (94 years ago) John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (died 2009)
• 1936 (90 years ago) F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp

Deaths

• 1227 (799 years ago) Pope Honorius III,
• 1745 (281 years ago) Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676)
• 1768 (258 years ago) Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (born 1713)
• 1913 (113 years ago) George I of Greece,
• 1980 (46 years ago) Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900)
• 1983 (43 years ago) Umberto II of Italy,
• 1996 (30 years ago) Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926)

All 385 events, births and deaths of March 18