At A Glance

18 March 2015 at a glance

Day of the week
18 March 2015 was a Wednesday.
Irish Chart Song in 2015
The Irish chart song for 2015 was “Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding.
Top Film of 2015
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2015 was Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Star sign
The star sign for 18 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 18 March 2015 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 18 March 2015 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 2015 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2015 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 18 January – Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, revealed his homosexuality on radio, thus becoming the first openly gay government minister in Ireland.
  • 4 February – The ferryboat service from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead in Wales ended after 204 years. The boat from Dublin Port to Holyhead remained in service.
  • 13 March – A new political party, Renua, was launched.

Life in Ireland in 2015

Taoiseach

Enda Kenny

Petrol (per litre)

€1.32/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.50

Average House

€205,000

Weekly Wage

€440

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