Births on March 18

Fernandão

Born on March 18, 1978

Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)

Fernandão is a hypocorism of the name Fernando, and means "Big Fernando" or "Fernando Sr." in Portuguese.

People named Fernandão include:

Fernandão (footballer, born 1978), full name Fernando Lúcio da Costa, Brazilian football manager and former footballer.

Fernandão (footballer, born 1987), full name José Fernando Viana de Santana, Brazilian footballer

Fernandão (futsal player) (born 1980), full name Fernando Maciel Gonçalves, Spanish-Brazilian futsal player

Fernando Ávila (born 1955), Brazilian former volleyball player

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Events on 1978

11 Feb

Aristotle
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
27 Apr

Watergate scandal
Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
25 Jul

In vitro fertilisation
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
22 Oct

Pope John Paul II
Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
18 Nov

Jim Jones
In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

Births on March 18

Fernandão

Born on March 18, 1978

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Events on 1978

Aristotle

Watergate scandal

In vitro fertilisation

Pope John Paul II

Jim Jones