Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. Date: March 18, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)

The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. Date: March 18, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today)

Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. Date: March 18, 1970 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1970 📅 On This Day (Today)

Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. Date: March 18, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)

Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul, is torn down in the middle of the night. Date: March 18, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)

A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. Date: March 18, 1980 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1980 📅 On This Day (Today)

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Date: March 18, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)

Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. Date: March 18, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)

Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign 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. Date: March 18, 1994 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1994 📅 On…

A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. Date: March 18, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)