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18 March 2014 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 18 March 2014 was a Tuesday.
- ARIA No. 1
- The ARIA No. 1 was “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
- Top Film of 2014
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2014 was Transformers: Age of Extinction.
- Best-Selling Vehicle of 2014
- Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2014 was the Toyota Corolla.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 18 March is Pisces.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 18 March 2014 fell in the Year of the Horse.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 18 March 2014 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 18 March
- 1974 Güzel İstanbul, a nude sculpture by Gürdal Duyar in Istanbul, is torn down in the middle of the night.
- 1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
- 1990 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.
- 1994 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.
- 2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
Famous people born on 18 March
- Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress (born 1970)
- Lily Collins, English-American actress (born 1989)
- Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1975)
- Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality (born 1979)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2014 in Australia
A selection from Wikipedia's '2014 in Australia'. Not a complete list.
- 15 March – State elections are held in South Australia and Tasmania. The Liberal Party defeats the Giddings Labor government in Tasmania, after 16 years in opposition.
- 30 March – It is announced that former Defence Force Chief Angus Houston will lead the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by heading a new Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre to be established in Perth, Western Australia.
- 5 April – A special election is held for six Senate seats from Western Australia, following the voiding of results due to the loss of 1,375 ballot papers in the 2013 federal election.
Life in Australia in 2014
Prime Minister
Tony Abbott
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$1.38
Loaf of Bread
$3.30
Average House
$525,000
Weekly Wage
$1,440.00
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