At A Glance

18 March 2010 at a glance

Day of the week
18 March 2010 was a Thursday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Pass Out” by Tinie Tempah.
Top Film of 2010
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2010 was Toy Story 3.
Star sign
The star sign for 18 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 18 March 2010 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 18 March 2010 was Waxing Crescent.

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 2010 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2010 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 15 April – A cloud of volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland causes the closure of airspace over the United Kingdom and northern and western Europe.
  • 7 May – 2010 general election: The Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats begin negotiations to reach either a parliamentary agreement, or to create a coalition government with a House of Commons majority.
  • 29 July – Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank for more than a century.

Life in 2010

Prime Minister

Gordon Brown

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£2.85

Loaf of Bread

£1.25

Average House

£167,469

Weekly Wage

£699.00

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