When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

Then March brought an 18 per cent rise in net revenues -- after operating costs.

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

Severus Alexander (; 1 October 208 – 18 or 19 March 235 ) was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235.

Following the nomination of Maximinus as emperor, Alexander was assassinated ( on either 18 or 19 March 235 ), together with his mother, in a mutiny of the Legio XXII Primigenia at Moguntiacum.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on March 18, 1900.

On 18 March 2012, Rowan Williams announced he would be stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of 2012.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

The tax was criticized by the opposition as a tax grab, and voted down in the Senate on March 18, 2009.

# Heinrich V " der Fromme " ( b. Dresden, 16 March 1473 – d. Dresden, 18 August 1541 ).

On March 18, 1992 the parliament passed resolution " On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " that bound the government " to start the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus as of March 20, 1992 " and " to submit to the Supreme Soviet for approval the suggested structure of the Armed Forces, their size and order of their material and technical supplies ".

Botswana and Samoa established diplomatic relations on 18 March 2010.

Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

* BBC News Northern Ireland 1917-20 The Road to Partition posted March 18, 1999

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

The government was deposed in 15 March 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé, who promised elections in 18 to 30 months.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

Christian Goldbach ( March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764 ) was a German mathematician who also studied law.

On March 18, VCheKa adopted a resolution, The Work of VCheKa on the All-Russian Scale, foreseeing the formation everywhere of Extraordinary Commissions after the same model, and sent a letter that called for the widespread establishment of the Cheka in combating counterrevolution, speculation, and sabotage.

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

GDP ( pp. ): $ 18. 92 billion ( 2008 )

* 2008 – Hamburg – 10. 18. 07 ( Official Bootleg series )

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

In 2002, the FCC decided to no longer require A and B carriers to support AMPS service as of February 18, 2008.

Cellular companies who own an A or B license ( such as Verizon and Alltel ) were required to provide analog service until February 18, 2008.

* Verizon Wireless — Formerly operating an AMPS network, on February 18, 2008, Verizon has discontinued all AMPS service.

Service on the remaining 850 MHz AMPS markets was discontinued along with 850 MHz D-AMPS service on February 18, 2008, except in areas where service was provided by Dobson Communications.

gas ( 37 km ); oil 18 km ( 2008 )

premiered on 18 July 2008.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 October 2008 had been the most major revamp to date.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

On July 4, 2008, Colorado defeated the Florida Marlins, 18 – 17, after at one point being down, 13 – 4.

* 2008 Hewa Bora Airways crash-April 15 plane crash killed at least 18 people after taking off from the Goma International Airport, tearing the roofs off houses as it plowed through a densely populated marketplace near the runway.

* 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities ( including gunman ) and 18 injuries.

The NHS will from December 2008, ensure that no person waits longer than 18 weeks from the date that a patient is referred to the hospital to the time of the operation or treatment.

Henri Chopin ( 18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008 ) was an avant-garde poet and musician.

On November 18, 2008, Anchor Bay released a Blu-ray with all the special features from the 20th Anniversary DVD and a soundtrack in Dolby TrueHD 5. 1.

Hedge funds posted disappointing returns in 2008, but the average hedge fund return of − 18. 65 % ( the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index return ) was far better than the returns generated by most assets other than cash or cash equivalents.

In 2008, Ireland had the highest birth rate ( 18. 1 per 1, 000 ), lowest death rate ( 6. 1 per 1, 000 ) and highest net-migration rate ( 14. 1 per 1, 000 ) in the entire European Union – and the largest population growth rate ( 4. 4 %) in the 27-member bloc as a result.

The total fertility rate has also climbed from an all-time low of 1. 18 children per woman in 1995 to 1. 41 in 2008.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.