On This Day - March 18th

Submitted by Syrext on March 18, 2025

On This Day 📜 - March 18th

Featured Event:

Election of Chen Shui-bian (2000) 🗳️

On this day in 2000, Chen Shui-bian, a leader of the pro-independence movement that sought statehood for Taiwan, was elected president of Taiwan, breaking the Nationalist Party's 55-year rule.

Other Events:

1871: The Commune of Paris, an insurrection of Parisians against the French government, began, lasting until May 28. 🇫🇷

1906: The first monoplane, constructed by the Romanian inventor Trajan Vuia, made a flight of 12 metres 🛩️

1965: Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became the first man to walk in space. 👨‍🚀

1990: In what was considered the world's biggest art heist, two men pretending to be police officers stole 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 🖼️

Holidays:

Flag Day 🇦🇼

Sheelah's Day 🇨🇦🇮🇪🇦🇺

Teacher's Day 🇸🇾

Ordnance Factories' Day 🇮🇳

Featured Birthdays:

1837: Grover Cleveland 🇺🇸 (22th President)

1858: Rufold Diesel 🇩🇪 (Engineer)

1952: Mike Webster 🇺🇸 (NFL Player)

1970: Queen Latifah 🇺🇸 (Musician)

Featured Deaths:

1584: Ivan the Terrible 🇷🇺 (Tsar)