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September 18 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
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 .
1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France .
1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice , the Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War .
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1544 - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty (Truce of Crepy-en-Laonnois )
1573 - Spanish attack on Alkmaar .
1615 - Thomas Row, the first British messenger came to India.
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France .
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony .
1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire .
1759 - The British capture Quebec City .
1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington .
1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 - First Government Junta in Chile . Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it was in fact the first step towards independence from Spain , and it is commemorated as such.
1812 - Fire of Moscow fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin , spared from the fire.
1830 - A horse beats the first U.S. -made locomotive in a race near Baltimore .
1837 - Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York. The store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden .
1850 - The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act .
1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times , begins publishing.
1863 - American Civil War : Battle of Chickamauga .
1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway .
1873 - The Panic of 1873 begins.
1879 - Blackpool's illuminations were switched on for the first time.
1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1895 - Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise " address.
1895 - Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
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 Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera House
1911 - All workers go on general strike in Valencia
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 admitted to League of Nations .
1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel .
1931 - The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria .
1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign .
1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations.
1939 - World War II : Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania .
1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
1940 - World War II : Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani .
1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór .
1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews .
1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru , 5,600 killed.
1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo .
1945 - In Gary , 1000 whites walk out of schools to protest integration.
1947 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent service.
1947 - Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City , making it the venue's first country performance.
1948 - Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies .
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator 's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten .
1948 - Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator for Palestine and Israel .
1948 - Yoni Abramski, 12-year-old Israeli boy, shot and killed by Jordanian sniper in Jerusalem .
1959 - Vanguard 3 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 .
1962 - Rwanda , Burundi and Jamaica admitted to the United Nations .
1963 - The last game at the Polo Grounds is played.
1964 - Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie .
1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam .
1967 - Esporte Clube Santo André , of Brazil , is founded.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix found dead in his basement in London .
1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK .
1973 - East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations .
1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1975 - Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List .
1976 - Mao Tse Tung 's funeral takes place in Beijing .
1977 - Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David .
1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban ) to Salyut 6 space station .
1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France
1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon .
1983 - Rock band Kiss unmasks for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up .
1984 - Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic .
1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR .
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) were killed by the Tatmadaw .
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico , killing six.
1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations .
1991 - Yugoslavia began a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1992 - An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labour dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations .
1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy .
1998 - ICANN is formed.
2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton , New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks .
2002 - The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire , ending a six-month search.
2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
2003 - The UK 's Local Government Act 2003 , repealing Section 28 , receives Royal Assent .
2004 - Ford put Jaguar Racing and Cosworth up for sale.
2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest , Hungary , one day after an audio tape was made public , on which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections .
2007 - President General 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
Births [ ]
53 - Trajan , Roman Emperor (d. 117 )
1344 - Marie Valois , Princess of France (d. 1404 )
1434 - Eleanor of Portugal (d. 1467 )
1505 - Maria of Austria , wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558 )
1587 - Francesca Caccini , Italian composer (d. circa 1640 )
1643 - Gilbert Burnet , Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715 )
1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther , German composer (d. 1748 )
1709 - Samuel Johnson , English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784 )
1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Russian statesman (d. 1783 )
1718 - Maria Anna of Austria , Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1744 )
1733 - George Read , signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798 )
1750 - Tomas de Iriarte , Spanish writer (d. 1791 )
1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre , French mathematician (d. 1833 )
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846 )
1779 - Joseph Story , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845 )
1786 - Christian VIII of Denmark , King of Denmark (d. 1848 )
1786 - Justinus Kerner , German poet (d. 1862 )
1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson , American politician (d. 1880 )
1819 - Leon Foucault , French physicist (d. 1868 )
1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos , (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880 )
1838 - Anton Mauve , Dutch artist (d. 1888 )
1857 - John Hessin Clarke , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945 )
1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless , American cattle rancher (d. 1940 )
1858 - Kate Booth , the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955 )
1863 - Hermann Kutter , Swiss theologian (d. 1931 )
1870 - Clark Wissler , American anthropologist (d. 1947 )
1875 - Tomas Burgos , Chilean philanthropist (d.1945 )
1876 - James Scullin , 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953 )
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson , British composer (d. 1950 )
1889 - Doris Blackburn , Australian politician (d. 1970 )
1893 - Arthur Benjamin , Australian composer (d. 1960 )
1893 - William March , American writer (d. 1954 )
1895 - Tomoji Tanabe , the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
1895 - John Diefenbaker , 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979 )
1901 - Harold Clurman , American film producer (d. 1980 )
1905 - Eddie Anderson , American actor (d. 1977 )
1905 - Agnes de Mille , American choreographer (d. 1993 )
1905 - Greta Garbo , Swedish actress (d. 1990 )
1907 - Leon Askin , Austrian actor (d. 2005 )
1907 - Edwin McMillan , Nobel laureate (d. 1991 )
1911 - Syd Howe , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976 )
1912 - Kurt Lotz , German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005 )
1914 - Jack Cardiff , British film director
1916 - Rossano Brazzi , Italian singer and actor (d. 1994 )
1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr. , American politician and lawyer (d. 2003 )
1916 - Frank Bell , British educator (d. 1989 )
1917 - June Foray , American voice actress
1917 - Francis Parker Yockey , author of Imperium (d. 1960 )
1918 - John Berger , English politician
1920 - Jack Warden , American actor (d. 2006 )
1922 - Grayson Hall , American actress (d. 1985 )
1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen , English composer
1923 - Peter Smithson , English architect (d. 2003 )
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1925 - Harvey Haddix , American baseball player (d. 1994 )
1926 - Bud Greenspan , American film producer
1926 - Bob Toski , American golfer
1927 - Phyllis Kirk , American actress (d. 2006 )
1929 - Nancy Littlefield , American film producer (d. 2007 )
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov , Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002 )
1933 - Scotty Bowman , Canadian ice hockey coach
1933 - Robert Blake , American actor
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers , American singer and composer
1933 - Robert Foster Bennett , American senator (Utah )
1935 - John Spencer , English former snooker player (d. 2006 )
1937 - Ralph Backstrom , Canadian ice hockey player
1939 - Jorge Sampaio , former President of Portugal
1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr. , Norwegian actor
1940 - Frankie Avalon , American musician
1944 - Michael Franks , American musician
1944 - Charles L. Veach , American astronaut (d. 1995 )
1944 - Rocío Jurado , Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006 )
1946 - Nicholas Clay , English actor (d. 2000 )
1946 - Otis Sistrunk , American football player
1947 - Giancarlo Minardi , Italian motor racing team boss
1948 - Ken Brett , American baseball player (d. 2003 )
1949 - Jim McCrery , American politician
1949 - Mo Mowlam , British politician (d. 2005 )
1949 - Peter Shilton , English footballer
1949 - Kerry Livgren , American singer (Kansas )
1950 - Shabana Azmi , Indian actress
1950 - Darryl Sittler , Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Anna Deavere Smith , American actress and playwright
1951 - Benjamin Carson , American neurosurgeon
1951 - Darryl Stingley , American football player (d. 2007 )
1951 - Dee Dee Ramone , American bassist (The Ramones ) (d. 2002 )
1951 - Marc Surer , Swiss motor racing driver
1952 - Rick Pitino , American basketball coach
1953 - Betsy Boze nee: Vogel, American Academic
1954 - Tommy Tuberville , Auburn Head Football Coach
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto , Pakistani politician (d. 1996 )
1954 - Takao Doi , Japanese astronaut
1954 - Dennis Johnson , American basketball player (d. 2007 )
1955 - Bob Papenbrook , American voice actor (d. 2006 )
1956 - Peter Šťastný , Slovak ice hockey player
1956 - Chris Hedges , American journalist and author
1958 - John Aldridge , Irish footballer
1958 - Don Geronimo , Radio personality of the Don & Mike Show
1959 - Ryne Sandberg , American baseball player
1959 - Ian Arkwright , English footballer
1961 - James Gandolfini , American actor
1962 - Joanne Catherall , English singer
1962 - John Fashanu , English footballer
1963 - Rob Brettle , British historian
1964 - Marco Masini , Italian singer-songwriter
1964 - Holly Robinson Peete , American actress
1967 - Ricky Bell , American singer (New Edition , Bell Biv DeVoe )
1967 - Tara Fitzgerald , English actress
1968 - Toni Kukoč , Croatian basketball player
1968 - Cappadonna , American rapper
1970 - Darren Gough , English cricketer
1970 - Dan Eldon , British photojournalist (d. 1993 )
1970 - Aisha Tyler , American actress and comedian
1971 - Lance Armstrong , American cyclist
1971 - Anna Netrebko , Russian opera singer
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith , American model and actress
1972 - David Jefferies , British motorcycle racer (d. 2003 )
1973 - Paul Brousseau , Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - James Marsden , American actor
1973 - Ami Onuki , Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi )
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth , South African entrepreneur
1974 - Sol Campbell , English footballer
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro , Portuguese basketball player
1974 - Xzibit , American rapper
1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk , Belarusian pistol shooter
1976 - Ronaldo , Brazilian footballer
1977 - Li Tie , Chinese footballer
1978 - Pilar López de Ayala , Spanish actress
1979 - Alison Lohman , American actress
1979 - Daniel Aranzubia , Spanish footballer
1983 - Kevin Doyle , Irish footballer
1986 - Keeley Hazell , British model
1988 - Annette Obrestad , Norwegian poker player
Deaths [ ]
96 - Domitian , Roman Emperor (b. 51 )
887 - Pietro I Candiano , Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120 )
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi , Japanese warlord (b. 1536 )
1630 - Melchior Klesl , Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552 )
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino , Italian saint (b. 1603 )
1675 - Charles IV (b. 1604 )
1721 - Matthew Prior , English poet and diplomat (b. 1664 )
1722 - André Dacier , French classical scholar (b. 1651 )
1783 - Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician (b. 1707 )
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott , English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718 )
1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German religious leader (b. 1704 )
1827 - Robert Pollok , Scottish poet (b. 1789 )
1830 - William Hazlitt , English essayist (b. 1778 )
1860 - Joseph Locke , English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805 )
1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826 )
1891 - William Ferrel , American mathematician (b. 1817 )
1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau , French physicist (b. 1819 )
1905 - George MacDonald , Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824 )
1911 - Pyotr Stolypin , Russian politician (b. 1862 )
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley , British philosopher (b. 1846 )
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz , Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885 )
1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915 )
1949 - Frank Morgan , American actor (b. 1890 )
1953 - Charles de Tornaco , Belgian racing driver (b. 1927 )
1956 - Adélard Godbout , premier of Quebec (b. 1892 )
1959 - Benjamin Péret , French surrealist author
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld , Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905 )
1964 - Clive Bell , English art critic (b. 1881 )
1964 - Sean O'Casey , Irish writer (b. 1880 )
1967 - John Cockcroft , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897 )
1970 - Jimi Hendrix , American musician (b. 1942 )
1977 - Paul Bernays , Swiss mathematician (b. 1888 )
1980 - Katherine Anne Porter , American novelist (b. 1890 )
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player (b. 1954 )
1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon , blues singer (b. 1920 )
2001 - Ernie Coombs , Canadian entertainer (b. 1927 )
2002 - Bob Hayes , American athlete (b. 1942 )
2002 - Mauro Ramos , Brazilian football player (b. 1930 )
2003 - Emil Fackenheim , German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916 )
2003 - Bob Mitchell , British politician (b. 1927 )
2004 - Norman Cantor , Canadian historian (b. 1929 )
2004 - Russ Meyer , American film director (b. 1922 )
2005 - Michael Park , British Rally co-driver (b. 1966 )
2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz
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130 Familypedia people were born on September 18
159 Familypedia people died on September 18
115 Familypedia people were first married on September 18