September
18
Independence
Day
Chile : September 18 1810
Events
September
18
14 – Tiberius
is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following
the natural death of Augustus
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 the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth,
and final, voyage.
1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria 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 – 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 Law 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.
1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first
time.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory
smallpox vaccination.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "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 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 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 the pretext to invade
and occupy Manchuria.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees
to Romania.
1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw
begins transmitting.
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
Junyō 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 were established in the United States under the National
Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts
the surrender of Nizam's Army.
1948 – Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman
elected to the US 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.
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are
admitted to the United Nations.
1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
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.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most
Wanted List.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the
Moon together.
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to
Salyut 6 space station.
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment
in France.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred 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 7 Adriatic port
cities.
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor
dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1
billion to the United Nations.
1998 – ICANN is formed.
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 called the Saffron Revolution.
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends
as its final episode is broadcast.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Constantius (Theban Legion)
Eustorgius I
Joseph of Cupertino
Methodius of Olympus
Richardis
September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Day or Dieciocho, the date of the first Government
Junta after the Chilean independence on February 12, 1818 (Chile)
World Water Monitoring Day (International)
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