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What Happened on September 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing.
2016	The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
2015	Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2014	Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
2012	Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.
2011	The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2007	Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2001	First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
1997	United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997	The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
1992	An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
1990	Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1988	The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
1988	General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
1984	Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1982	The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.
1981	The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1980	Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
1977	Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1974	Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1973	The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1962	Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1961	U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960	Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1954	Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.[16]
1948	Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
1948	Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
1947	The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.
1945	General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.
1944	World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
1944	World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.
1943	World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1940	World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1939	World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939	World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
1934	The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
1931	Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden Incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1928	Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1927	The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1922	The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1919	Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1914	The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1906	The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
1898	The Fashoda Incident, a territorial dispute between Britain and France, triggers a war scare.
1895	The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
1882	The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1879	The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1873	The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
1872	King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1870	Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
1864	American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
1863	American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg.
1862	The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
1860	Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied Anglo-French force engages and defeats a larger Qing Chinese army at Zhangjiawan.
1851	First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1850	The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1838	The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1837	Tiffany & 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".
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.
1810	First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1809	The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1793	The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
1759	French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.
1739	The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
1714	George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.
1618	The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1544	The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain.
1454	Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights.
1180	Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.
1066	Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.
1048	Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.
324	Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
96	Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.
96	Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.

Famous People Born on September 18

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Year	Name
1900	Willis Laurence James, American violinist and educator (d. 1966)
1951	Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2002)
1971	Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
1936	Big Tom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1974	Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
1947	Giancarlo Minardi, Italian businessman, founded the Minardi Racing Team
1587	Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1640)
1946	Gailard Sartain, American actor
1933	Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2012)
1901	Harold Clurman, American director and producer (d. 1980)

Famous People Deaths On September 18

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Date	Name
1988	Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (b. 1901)
1974	Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
2008	Leo de Berardinis, Italian actor and director (b. 1940)
2015	Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1955)
2001	Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (b. 1927)
1630	Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (b. 1552)
1361	Louis V, duke of Bavaria (b. 1315)
2014	Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1936)
1792	August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704)
1977	Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)