What day of the week was March 18, 1980?

The day of the week March 18th, 1980 fell on was a Tuesday. There were 19 days until Easter Sunday.

Sébastien Frey the French footballer was born on 18 March in 1980. As was Sophia Myles the English actress , Alexei Yagudin the Russian figure skater , Natalia Poklonskaya the Crimean lawyer and politician .

Erich Fromm the German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900) died on this day in 1980.

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia the 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.