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Santo Domingo.- The events of March 18 are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below, the main events of March 18:
- World Day of Juvenile Rheumatic Diseases. It is one of the commemorations of March 18 that seeks to raise awareness about these diseases in children and young people.
- World Social Work Day. It is one of the commemorations of March 18 since 2008.
- World Day of Edwards Syndrome or Trisomy 18. It is one of the commemorations of March 18 that seeks to make this genetic disorder visible, which has a high postnatal mortality rate and is characterized by a change in the number of chromosomes, with an extra copy appearing on chromosome 18.
Saint's Day: Saints Cyril of Jerusalem and Salvador of Horta
National: March 18th Anniversaries
- 1844. The battles of Cabeza de Las Maria, near Neyba and Las Hicoteas, take place. The latter is recorded when Haitian President Charles Herard arrives with his army in the city of Azua.
- 1861. President Pedro Santana proclaimed the annexation of Santo Domingo to Spain from the balcony of the Government Palace.
- 1891. Congress dictates an amnesty decree in favor of all exiles.
- 1998. President Ulises Heureaux submits to the Congress of the Republic the bill that proposes changing the name of the community of Barbero to Pimentel, Duarte province.
- 1943. Through Law No. 229, the province of Bahoruco is created, effective May 16 of the same year.
- 1945. In different places in Ciudad Trujillo, posters and flyers appear pasted on walls and electrical poles, denouncing the crimes of the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship and inviting the people to rebel against tyranny.
- 1930. Despite having promised that he would not run for the presidency of the country, General Rafael Trujillo is proclaimed a candidate by the Civic Movement, headed by lawyer Rafael Estrella Ureña, being elected president on May 16 of that same year.
- 1962. The Court of Appeal of Santo Domingo, declared constitutional the national emergency law that gives the State Council the power to deport from the country people it considers dangerous for the stability of the Republic.
- 1970. President Balaguer describes the assassination of four citizens in Barahona, at the hands of police sergeant Luis Rosario Medrano Pérez (Ráfaga), as a "monstrosity".
- 2008. The Dominican Association of Municipal Districts is created through the Law 122-05 , as an entity that promotes Transparency, the Democracy of municipal management.
- - The official commission on the drainage of the Tavera dam, which caused dozens of deaths and devastated localities downstream of the Yaque del Norte River, concludes in its report that there was no negligence in the management of the reservoir, after the passage of the Olga storm.
- - Dominican boxer Juan Carlos Payano wins a gold medal in Trinidad and Tobago, in the qualifiers for the Beijing Olympic Games.
- 2010. The Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jacques Diouf, deplores here that food insecurity in Haiti exceeds 50%, after the earthquake that devastated that nation on January 12.
- 2012. In Nha Trang, Vietnam, the Mister Universe contest is held, won by the representative of the Dominican Republic Erick Sabater.
- 2019. The suspended finance secretary of the PLD, Víctor Díaz Rúa, requests during a hearing of the Odebrecht case, that the Public Ministry explain why it did not include in the indictment an addendum to the Coral highway signed by the current Minister of Public Works and Communications, Gonzalo Castillo.
- 2020. The Senate approves the resolution declaring a state of emergency throughout the national territory due to the coronavirus for a period of 25 days, which also sanctions restrictions for the time strictly necessary, on freedoms of transit.
- - The Central Electoral Board orders that the Civil Registry Offices refrain from scheduling weddings while the measures ordered by the government to face the coronavirus crisis remain in place.
- 2021. The Public Ministry concludes the presentation of its testimonial evidence in the trial against six defendants for receiving and distributing bribes of US$92 million that the Odebrecht company paid to obtain the award of important public works in the country.
International: March 18th Anniversaries
- 417. Zósimus was elected Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, who assumed his same name.
- 932. First known document mentioning Fernán González as Count of Castile.
- 1238. The Golden Horde assassinates the Grand Duke of Vladimir in Russia after razing the country.
- 1865. Paraguay begins the war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
- 1871. In France, the popular masses take over the government of Paris (Paris Commune).
- 1921. The Chinese steamer "Hong Kong" sank south of the China Sea and a thousand people died.
- 1922. Mahatma Ghandi is sentenced to six years in prison in India, accused of civil disobedience.
- 1938. Mexico nationalizes the oil industry.
- 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded.
- 1953. The first televised broadcast of the Oscars is produced, through the NBC network, carrying simultaneously from the RKO Pantages Theater in Hollywood, in Los Angeles, to the NBC International Theater in Manhattan, New York.
- 1959. Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States.
- 2008. The foreign ministers of the Americas meeting in Washington "reject", with reservations from the United States, the Colombian military operation on Ecuadorian soil that provokes the rupture of diplomatic relations by Quito with Bogotá.
- 2009. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) release the Swedish engineer Roland Larsson, the last foreigner they held captive.
- 2011. Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide arrives in his country after seven years of exile in South Africa and two days before the presidential and legislative elections.
- 2014. After being approved by referendum on political status, the republic officially becomes an independent State, recognized only by the Russian Federation, to which it annexes minutes after achieving independence.
- 2015. The Organization of American States elects Uruguayan Luis Almagro as its new secretary general, amid criticism from some member countries and in the face of uncertainty as to whether it will be able to overcome the economic and political problems it faces.
- 2017. In France, two terrorist attacks were recorded perpetrated by a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, in a suburb of Paris and Orly airport in Paris. The attacker died of gunshot wounds when trying to steal a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport during Opération Sentinelle.
- 2018. US President Donald Trump reiterates his denunciation of "corruption" in the FBI, after the dismissal of the former "number two" of that agency, and downplays the investigation into the Russian plot by insisting that "there was no conspiracy" between Moscow and its 2016 election campaign.
- 2019. The Chamber of Deputies of Haiti approves a motion of censure against the prime minister, Jean Henry Ceant, amid a severe political and economic crisis, six months after he took office.
- 2020. The global health crisis due to covid-19 has once again highlighted the tense rivalry between the two world superpowers, the US and China, definitively leaving behind the apparent honeymoon after their commercial rapprochement.
- 2021. Russian President Vladimir Putin urges his American counterpart Joe Biden to "look in the mirror" after the latter called him a "killer" during a television interview, in which he asserts that people "always project onto others what they think of themselves".
- -The Airbus company announces the launch of the first study in the world to evaluate the emissions and operation of an airliner that operates solely with the so-called sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), obtained by recycling frying oil.
Births: March 18th Anniversaries
- 1813: Thomas Graham Balfour, Scottish surgeon, pioneer of the use of statistics in medicine.
- 1848: Louise of the United Kingdom, British aristocrat, daughter of Queen Victoria.
- 1952: Salome Zurabishvili, French-Georgian politician. President of Georgia since 2018.
- 1966: Jerry Cantrell, American guitarist of the band Alice in Chains.
- 1969: Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan actor, producer, and politician, President of Guatemala between 2016 and 2020.
- 1979: Adam Levine, American musician, leader of the band Maroon 5.
- 1989: Lily Collins, British-American actress and model.
Deaths: March 18th Anniversaries
- 1567: Salvador of Horta, Spanish Franciscan monk and healer, canonized by the Catholic Church.
- 1871: Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician and logician born in India.
- 1972: Jim McCartney, British musician and worker, father of the Beatle Paul McCartney.
- 2012: George Tupou V, Tongan aristocrat, King of Tonga between 2006 and 2012.
- 2024: Nicandro Díaz González, Mexican television producer.
