WHAT HAPPENED ON 18. MARCH
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The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the Cornish coast. (18. March 1967)

Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. (18. March 1968)

The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. (18. March 1969)

Lon Nol ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. (18. March 1970)

The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history. (18. March 1970)

In Peru a landslide crashed into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. (18. March 1971)

Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations ended a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. (18. March 1974)

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people were killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. (18. March 1980)

In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops. (18. March 1989)

Germans in the German Democratic Republic voted in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. (18. March 1990)

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. (18. March 1990)

In a national referendum white South Africans voted overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid. (18. March 1992)

Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats signed the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (18. March 1994)

A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines killed 162 people. (18. March 1996)

The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane broke off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s. (18. March 1997)