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Events on March 18

• 1848 The March Revolution spreads throughout the German Confederation. In Berlin, despite concessions by King Frederick William IV, armed fighting breaks out between citizens and the military, with approximately 300 people losing their lives.
• 1890 Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck submits his resignation to Emperor William II, something the young monarch had urged him to do several times previously. Two days later, the resignation takes effect.
• 1895 The world's first bus line with a gasoline-powered omnibus, operated by the Netphener Omnibus Company and built by Carl Benz, begins service between Deuz and Siegen.
• 1922 Mahatma Gandhi begins serving a six-year prison sentence in British India for civil disobedience, but will serve only two years of it for health reasons.
• 1945 1,250 American bombers carry out the heaviest air raid on Berlin in terms of bomb load during the Second World War.
• 1961 Following Hanns Seidel's resignation, Franz Josef Strauß becomes chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU).
• 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Voshkod 2 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome under the command of Pawel Iwanowitsch Beljajew. On the same day, the second cosmonaut, Alexei Archipowitsch Leonow, undertakes an extravehicular activity as the first human being.
• 1973 In Germany, the first talk show, Je später der Abend, is broadcast on West German television.
• 1990 In the German Democratic Republic, the only free elections to the People's Chamber take place. The GDR's CDU becomes by far the strongest party; a total of 12 parties are represented in the People's Chamber.
• 1990 In Boston, two perpetrators disguised as police officers steal 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The largest art heist in the history of the United States, with estimated damage of more than 500 million dollars, has not yet been solved.
• 2012 Following Christian Wulff's resignation, Joachim Gauck is elected the 11th President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 2014 As part of the annexation of Crimea, Russia incorporates the Ukrainian peninsula into its territory.

Born on March 18

• 1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer and inventor
• 1869 Neville Chamberlain, British politician
• 1900 Hanne Sobek, German football player
• 1922 Egon Bahr, German politician
• 1932 John Updike, American writer
• 1970 Queen Latifah, American hip-hop musician and actress
• 1970 Matthias Maurer, German materials scientist and astronaut
• 1980 Juliette Schoppmann, German pop and musical singer
• 1981 Fabian Cancellara, Swiss racing cyclist
• 1990 Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, German actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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