Independence
day
Chile
UN
Day
International
Equal Pay Day
Events
of the day
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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