Historical Events in 2018 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 1,320

• Mar 2 Gunmen attack the French embassy and army HQ in suspected terrorist incident in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing 8 and injuring 80
• Mar 3 "The Emoji Movie" named worst film in 2017 in Razzies awards

• Mar 4 Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal are poisoned by nerve agent in Salisbury, England
• Mar 4 Italian general election results in no clear winner; populist Five Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio receives most votes with 32%
• Mar 4 World's worst listeria outbreak suspected of killing 180 tracked to processed meat factory in Polokwane, South Africa
• Mar 5 China announces a military budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion)

• Mar 6 "Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US", 142,000 overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Mar 6 American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia's Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
• Mar 6 British health officials tells the country it's time "to get on a diet" and urging manufacturers to reduce calories in foods

• Mar 6 Nashville mayor Megan Barry resigns a month after admitting to an extramarital affair with her bodyguard

• Mar 6 Sri Lanka imposes first nationwide state of emergency since civil war after unrest between Sinhalese and Muslim areas in Kandy District
• Mar 6 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
• Mar 8 5 million Spanish women mark International Women's Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
• Mar 8 Asia-Pacific trade deal signed in Santiago, Chile by 11 countries after US pulled out
• Mar 8 US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico
• Mar 10 16 people die after being struck by lightning at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda
• Mar 10 Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the first female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest

• Mar 11 Greek football Super League suspended after PAOK Salonika's president Ivan Savvidis invades pitch with a gun after goal disallowed

• Mar 12 Civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta passes 1,000 in three weeks as Syrian government forces capture the town of Mesraba
• Mar 12 Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
• Mar 12 Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years
• Mar 12 Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai

• Mar 14 Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio, prompting mass protests

• Mar 14 UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK
• Mar 14 US students across American commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country
• Mar 14 World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest
• Mar 15 More than 12,000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
• Mar 15 Pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, collapses onto 8-lane highway 5 days after it was built, killing 6
• Mar 15 Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico resigns amid crisis after the murder of a journalist Jan Kuciak investigating mafia connections
• Mar 15 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy

• Mar 16 Indian actor Irrfan Khan reveals he has been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour
• Mar 17 Africa's only female head of state, Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim confirms she is resigning amid an expenses scandal
• Mar 17 China's National People's Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-president
• Mar 18 African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation
• Mar 18 Bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia, destroys over 70 buildings
• Mar 18 First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona

• Mar 18 Serial bomber suspected after fourth bomb goes off in Austin, Texas, injuring two, total bombing death toll, 2 dead, 5 injured
• Mar 18 Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize Kurdish held northern Syrian town of Afrin

• Mar 18 Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term
• Mar 19 Mississippi signs into law the US's strictest abortion laws, no termination after 15 weeks
• Mar 19 World's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya

• Mar 21 African trade deal agreed by 44 African countries in Kigali, Rwanda
• Mar 21 Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt kills himself in chase with police in Austin, Texas
• Mar 21 China announces greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
• Mar 21 Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win the Turing Award for their work on RISC computer chips
• Mar 21 English TV presenter Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving following an accident in London
• Mar 21 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg admits they "made mistakes" after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica
• Mar 21 Nigerian government confirms 101 out of 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from Dapchi returned
• Mar 21 Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi accepts plea deal for 8 months in prison after slapping Israeli officer
• Mar 21 Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski offers his resignation amid vote-buying scandal
• Mar 21 Suicide bomber kills 31 in crowd celebrating Persian New Year in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Mar 22 Musical "Frozen" opens on Broadway based on the film, starring Patti Murin and Caissie Levy
• Mar 22 The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research
• Mar 22 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports
• Mar 23 A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi, Russia, orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand
• Mar 23 Peru's Congress swears in Vice-President Martín Vizcarra as the new President after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned amid corruption scandal
• Mar 24 American conducts its first ever drone strike against Al-Qaeda militants in southern Libya
• Mar 24 Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing match ball with an object during 3rd Cricket Test in Cape Town, resulting in an infamous ball tampering scandal
• Mar 24 Hundreds of protesters shut down special meeting at Sacramento City Hall investigating police shooting of Stephon Clark
• Mar 24 Tens of thousands attend 'March for Our Lives' rallies held in Washington, D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence
• Mar 25 Australian cricket captain Steve Smith handed one-match ban after admitting Australian team tampered with the ball in 3rd test against South Africa in South Africa
• Mar 25 Fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia, kills at least 64
• Mar 25 First scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK, leaves Perth for Heathrow airport in London, arrives after 17 hours
• Mar 25 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

• Mar 26 Porn star Stormy Daniels claims she had an affair with Donald Trump in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes and was later threatened to keep quiet
• Mar 26 US Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns
• Mar 26 US soldier receives world's first penis and scrotum transplant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
• Mar 26 US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK
• Mar 28 At least 68 people die and scores are injured in a fire caused by a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, Venezuela
• Mar 28 Captain Steve Smith and David Warner are suspended by Cricket Australia for 12 months, and Cameron Bancroft (9 months) for their part in the infamous ball-tampering scandal in South Africa
• Mar 28 North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, his first trip outside of North Korea since coming to power in 2011

• Mar 30 Palestinians begin a "Great March of Return", 6 weeks of protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians killed, 1,416 injured on the first day.

• Apr 4 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia
• Apr 6 Canadian Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team involved in a bus crash outside Tisdale, Saskatchewan that kills 16
• Apr 7 Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500
• Apr 7 Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks & Florida Panthers 1993-94

• Apr 10 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins testifying before US Congress about data use and security

• Apr 14 National Gardening Day, since 2018 and according to the National Day Calendar
• Apr 14 US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack
• Apr 15 126.2 cm (49.69") of rainfall in a day, Waipā Garden (Kauai). Hawaii (state record, breaking previous record of 1956)

• Apr 17 Protests across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old Muslim girl in Kathua, Bengalu
• Apr 18 Protests begin in Managua, Nicaragua, over proposed changes to social security, protesters beaten by suspected pro-government gangs
• Apr 18 “Black Panther” is the first film shown at a commercial cinema in 35 years in Saudi Arabia as cinemas are reopened
• Apr 19 King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of Swaziland to Eswatini, which translates as the “Land of the Swati”

• Apr 19 US Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois-D) is the first parent to bring a baby into the Senate chambers, a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chamber's floor
• Apr 20 Actress Allison Mack arrested on charges of sex trafficking in relation to sex cult NXIVM in New York
• Apr 20 Arsène Wenger announces he will leave London EPL club Arsenal after 22 years as manager

• Apr 21 Oakland A's left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox
• Apr 22 Bus crash in North Korea kills 36, with most Chinese tourists
• Apr 22 Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four before James Shaw Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunman's hands

• Apr 22 Saudi-led coalition airstrike kills more than 20 at a wedding in northwestern Yemen
• Apr 23 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan resigns after 10 years in office after mass protests against him beginning an unconstitutional third term
• Apr 23 Mario Abdo Benítez is elected President of Paraguay

• Apr 23 Van deliberately driven into pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, killing 10 and injuring 13

• Apr 24 Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites
• Apr 24 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI
• Apr 24 Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England
• Apr 24 US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
• Apr 25 Danish inventor Peter Madsen found guilty of killing and desecrating body of journalist Kim Wall aboard submarine, sentenced to life imprisonment
• Apr 25 Indian religious leader Asaram Bapu is sentenced to life for raping a 16-year old girl

• Apr 26 NFL Draft: Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield first pick by Cleveland Browns; 4 QBs taken in top 10 selections for first time in history
• Apr 26 Serial killer "Golden State Killer" identified after 40 years as a former police officer, responsible for 12 killings, 50 rapes in California
• Apr 27 German leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington, DC, meeting US President Donald Trump
• Apr 27 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons
• Apr 27 Mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona
• Apr 27 More than 40 Tuareg killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali

• Apr 28 Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village
• Apr 28 Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL; selected by Seattle Seahawks
• Apr 28 World's largest child sacrifice, 140 remains uncovered by archaeologists near Trujillo, Peru, dating back 550 years to Chimú civilisation

• Apr 29 Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal equals his Open-era record for most wins at the same event (11 Monte Carlo) with his 11th Barcelona ATP title
• Apr 29 Sweden's official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
• Apr 29 UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigns amid immigration scandal involving the Windrush generation
• Apr 30 Coordinated double suicide attack kills 36 in Kabul, Afghanistan, including nine journalists
• Apr 30 Etienne Terrus art museum in Elne, France, reveals half of its collection are fakes

• Apr 30 Pakistani city of Nawabshah sets global record for an April temperature, recording high of 50.2C
• Apr 30 Sajid Javid is named UK Home Secretary by Prime Minister Teresa May

• Apr 30 World's oldest known spider, a female trapdoor, dies after being killed by a wasp sting in Western Australia, aged 43
• May 1 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website
• May 1 Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah becomes the first African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year.
• May 1 Scotland is the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol
• May 1 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests
• May 2 Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan asks widespread protests to halt after ruling Republican party said it would support his bid to be Prime Minister
• May 2 Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
• May 2 E. coli outbreak linked to Romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, reports the first fatality with 121 cases across 25 US states
• May 2 Indian city of Kanpur declared world's most polluted city by WHO with 14 other Indian cities in the top 20
• May 2 Iowa passes US's strictest abortion ban, based on a fetal heartbeat

• May 2 New research show plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal "Plos One"
• May 2 Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years
• May 3 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski
• May 3 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes NFL's first $30m per season player after agreeing to $150m contract extension

• May 3 Indian government confirms around 110 people have died in dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last 9 days
• May 3 Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas
• May 4 California overtakes Great Britain to become the worlds fifth largest economy

• May 5 Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product

• May 7 Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study

• May 7 More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200
• May 7 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years
• May 7 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Welshman Mark Williams beats John Higgins of Scotland, 18-16; as promised, does his press conference in the nude
• May 8 Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
• May 8 Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists
• May 8 Paris St-Germain seals the French domestic football treble with a 2-0 win over 3rd Div Les Herbiers in the French Cup Final at the Stade de France
• May 8 President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
• May 8 Seattle Mariners MLB left-hander James Paxton hurls a no-hitter in a 5-0 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto
• May 9 Argentina announces talks with the IMF amid a new financial crisis with interest rates at 40%
• May 9 Dam bursts after heavy rains near Solai, Kenya, killing at least 41

• May 9 Manchester City smashes EPL records in 3-1 win over Brighton - most goals (105), most points (97) and most wins (31)

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