A closer look at the key events on March 18 in history:
Chen Shui Bian, 2005/ Jamali Jack/ Wikimedia Commons
Empty frames of the stolen Rembrandt pieces, A Lady and Gentleman in Black (left) and The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (right). Chris Dignes/Wikimedia Commons
In 1990, East Germany holds its first and only free parliamentary elections
The election was held for seats in the 400-seat Volkskammer. The event took place on March 18 right between the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 and just a few months before German reunification in 1990.
Seats in the Volkskammer after the 1990 elections/ Wikimedia Commons
In 1965, the first person walks in space
Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov performed the first tethered spacewalk, which lasted 12 minutes, walking up to 10 meters from his spacecraft.
Aleksej A. Leonov (left) and Valeri Kubasov ahead of the launch of Soyuz 19, July 15, 1975. Soyuz 19 was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA
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