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March 18

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Paris Commune

155 years ago

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1837

Grover Cleveland

Would be 189

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1871st

Cao Cao

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Famous births26

155 · 1871 yrs

Cao Cao

Cao Cao (; Chinese: 曹操; c. 155 – 15 March 220), courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han dynasty (c. 184–220 AD), ultimately taking effective control of the Han central government.

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LiteratureWould be 1871

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1604 · 422 yrs

John IV of Portugal

Dom John IV (19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), was King of Portugal from 1640 until his death in 1656. The grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, a claimant to the crown during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, he was proclaimed king in 1640 following the outbreak of the Portuguese Restoration War.

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RoyaltyWould be 422

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1609 · 417 yrs

Frederick III of Denmark

Frederick III (Danish: Frederik; 18 March 1609 – 9 February 1670) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 until his death in 1670.

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RoyaltyWould be 417

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1782 · 244 yrs

John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer and proponent of a strong federal government and protective tariffs.

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PoliticsWould be 244

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1813 · 213 yrs

Friedrich Hebbel

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist.

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LiteratureWould be 213

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1828 · 198 yrs

Randal Cremer

Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903 for his work with the international arbitration movement.

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PoliticsWould be 198

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1837 · 189 yrs

Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War and the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

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PoliticsWould be 189

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1842 · 184 yrs

Stéphane Mallarmé

Étienne Mallarmé (UK: MAL-ar-may, US: mal-ar-MAY; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé (French: ), was a French poet and critic.

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LiteratureWould be 184

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1858 · 168 yrs

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English:, German:; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for inventing the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel.

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TechnologyWould be 168

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1869 · 157 yrs

Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

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PoliticsWould be 157

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1903 · 123 yrs

Galeazzo Ciano

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari ( CHAH-noh, Italian:; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944), was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy under the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943.

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PoliticsWould be 123

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1925 · 101 yrs

Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (Russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born Smoktunovich, 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.

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FilmWould be 101

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Famous deaths20

1584 · 442 yrs

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 – 28 March 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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PoliticsWould be 496

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1745 · 281 yrs

Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving from 1721 to 1742.

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PoliticsWould be 350

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1768 · 258 yrs

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).

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LiteratureWould be 312

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1781 · 245 yrs

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (English: toor-GOH; French:; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism.

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ScienceWould be 299

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1871 · 155 yrs

Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the underlying principles of which he formalized.

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ScienceWould be 220

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1907 · 119 yrs

Marcellin Berthelot

Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (English: ber-tə-LOH, French:; 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry.

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ScienceWould be 198

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1913 · 113 yrs

George I of Greece

George I (Greek: Γεώργιος Α΄, romanized: Geórgios I; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 30 March 1863 until his assassination on 18 March 1913. He was the first monarch of a Greek dynasty that ruled, with a few breaks, until the monarchy was abolished in 1973.

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RoyaltyWould be 180

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1936 · 90 yrs

Eleftherios Venizelos

Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos (Greek: Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, romanized: Eleuthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, pronounced; 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and leader of the Greek national liberation movement.

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PoliticsWould be 162

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1964 · 62 yrs

Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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ScienceWould be 131

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1965 · 61 yrs

Farouk I of Egypt

Farouk I (Arabic: فاروق الأول, romanized: Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a military coup in 1952.

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RoyaltyWould be 106

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1980 · 46 yrs

Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (German:; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States.

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ScienceWould be 126

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1980 · 46 yrs

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara Łempicka (pronounced; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980), known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

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ArtWould be 128

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Events5

1839 · 187 yrs

First Opium War

The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and Qing China between 1839 and 1842.

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War

1871 · 155 yrs

Paris Commune

The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris on 18 March 1871 and controlled parts of the city until 28 May 1871.

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War

1961 · 65 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1961

The Eurovision Song Contest 1961, originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1961 de la Chanson Européenne (English: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1961), was the 6th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1961 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France, and presented by…

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Culture

1962 · 64 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1962

The Eurovision Song Contest 1962, originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1962 (English: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1962), was the 7th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1962 at the Grand Auditorium of Villa Louvigny in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, and…

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Culture

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Russian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 18 March 2018. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin was eligible to run.

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