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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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29 – Marc Blackburn

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 18, 2026

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