At A Glance

18 March 2020 at a glance

Day of the week
18 March 2020 was a Wednesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd.
Top Film of 2020
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2020 was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train.
Star sign
The star sign for 18 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 18 March 2020 fell in the Year of the Rat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 18 March 2020 was Waning 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 2020 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2020 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 8 January – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, announce that they plan to "step back as senior members" of the United Kingdom's royal family, and divide their time between the UK and North America.
  • 6 March – COVID-19 in the UK: The Prime Minister announces £46 million in funding for research into a COVID-19 vaccine and rapid COVID-19 testing.
  • 4 April – 2020 Labour Party leadership election: Keir Starmer is elected as the leader of the Labour Party, succeeding Jeremy Corbyn, and Angela Rayner is elected as deputy leader of the party.

Life in 2020

Prime Minister

Boris Johnson

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£3.95

Loaf of Bread

£1.55

Average House

£239,196

Weekly Wage

£890.00

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