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September 18 in History
Historical Events on September 18
AD 96
Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324
Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1066
Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
1180
Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1454
In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502
Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1618
The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1635
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679
New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714
George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1739
The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759
Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
1793
The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809
The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810
First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812
The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837
Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838
The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850
The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870
Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872
King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873
Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882
The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895
Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
1898
Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910
In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911
Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914
The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914
World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
1919
The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922
Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928
Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931
The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934
The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939
World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939
Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting pro-Nazi/anti-Allied propaganda.
1940
The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943
World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1943
World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945
General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947
The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1947
The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948
Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
1948
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1959
Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960
Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961
The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
1962
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964
North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973
The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977
Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981
Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982
Christian militia begin killing 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988
End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991
Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
1992
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
1997
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
2001
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2011
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2014
Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
2015
Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed following a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2016
Seventeen Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.
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