Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18

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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.
 * 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.
 * 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: | Matthew III Csák |d|1321| Charlotte Elliott |b|1789| John Plankinton |b|1820| Randal Cremer |b|1828|  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| Minnie Pwerle |d|2006

March 18: Feast day of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (Christianity)


 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 64 civilians.