March 18 ⇒Back
March 18 ⇒Back
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April 29, 1945 – ★Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker.
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Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the next day on April 30. The day is the 44th birthday of Japanese Emperor Hirohito. 44 means double death in Japanese. Traditionally, 4 is unlucky in Japan. Four is sometimes pronounced shi, which is also the word for death.
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April 26, 1986 - ◆The groundbreaking ceremony for the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is held.
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The day was March 18 in the Japanese calendar. And March 18, 1986 was the 100th anniversary of the creation of the navy bureau and the army bureau in the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office (March 18, 1986).
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April 26, 1986 - ◆The Chernobyl disaster.
A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".
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May 8, 2012 - ★Dmitry Medvedev is appointed Prime Minister of Russia. (Timeline)
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April 22, 2019 - ★The "second round Ukrainian presidential election" is held.
(European time April 21, 2019: Japan time April 22, 2019)
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Two candidates are Volodymyr Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko.
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