Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 March 18

Chappel Viaduct

• ... that newly minted coins placed inside a pier of Chappel Viaduct (pictured) went missing within hours, and a bricklayer who proffered a new half-sovereign in a pub was suspected?
• ... that Robert Shope, described as a "walking encyclopaedia" of arboviruses, discovered more novel viruses than anyone previously?
• ... that the hip-hop group Ill Harmonics was formed after the founders met at their local church choirs?
• ... that the collapse of the Tête Rousse Glacier in the Alps killed over 200 people in 1892, and thousands still live under its threat?
• ... that South African suffragist Julia Solly was the sister of British suffragist Nessie Stewart-Brown?
• ... that the upcoming
  Yellow through Pokémon Bank
  ?
• ... that Maud McLure Kelly, the first woman to practice law in Alabama, was also the first Southern woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court?
• ... that unlike other members of its genus, including the giant "corpse flower", the newly discovered Rafflesia consueloae smells like young coconut meat?

Sir Andrew Wiles

• his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
  .
• An explosion in Ankara, Turkey, kills 37 people and injures at least 125 others.
• At least 18 people are killed in
  shootings at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam
  , Ivory Coast.
• Google DeepMind's AlphaGo computer program wins a series against Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players.
• A total solar eclipse occurs, with totality visible from Indonesia and the North Pacific.

March 18: Flag Day in Aruba (1976)

Adolphe Thiers

• 1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelmed the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces in the Battle of Chmielnik and plundered the abandoned city of Kraków.
• slaves, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741
  .
• 1871 – French President Adolphe Thiers (pictured) ordered the evacuation of Paris after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune government.
• 1906 – Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
• burned a nightclub in Quezon City
  , leaving 162 dead.

• More anniversaries:
  • March 17
  • March 18
  • March 19

Hurricane Alice in 1955

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