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On This Day In History for March 18, 2026
This is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining in 2026.
- It was on this date in 1899, that Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, became the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
- It was also this date in 1965 that Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and became the first person to walk in space.
- That same date in 1980, A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 exploded during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French mathematician and astronomer, Philippe de La Hire, born on this date in 1640.
- Christian Goldbach, the Prussian-German mathematician and academic was born 336 years ago today.
- Born March 18, 1844, Russian composer and academic Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
- American architect and engineer, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, born on this date in 1848.
- Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine and was born on that same date in 1858.
- Canadian mathematician Agnes Sime Baxter was born 156 years ago today.
- Born March 18, 1905, American physicist and engineer Thomas Townsend Brown.
- American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery, Ernest Gallo, born on this date in 1909.
- Born March 18, 1926, American actor and director Peter Graves.
- Danish mathematician and statistician Ole Barndorff-Nielsen was born 91 years ago today.
- Swedish physicist and astronaut, Christer Fuglesang is 69 today.
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- 23 – Richard Parkman
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- 29 – Marc Blackburn
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 18, 2026
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