Notable Historical Events on September 18th
September 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
96 |
Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated. |
324 |
Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius |
1180 |
Philip Augustus becomes king of France. |
1437 |
Peasant uprising in Transsylvania |
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 4th & last voyage |
1544 |
English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne |
1544 |
Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I |
1573 |
Spain attacks Alkmaar |
1635 |
Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France |
1679 |
New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony |
1739 |
Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks |
1755 |
Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens |
1759 |
Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City |
1769 |
John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano |
1789 |
1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress |
1793 |
US President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building |
1809 |
Royal Opera House in London opens |
1810 |
Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1811 |
British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies |
1812 |
Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs |
1838 |
Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden |
1842 |
1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published |
1846 |
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping |
1848 |
Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner |
1849 |
De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns |
1850 |
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 |
1851 |
New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy) |
1862 |
Confederate armies officially divide into corps |
1862 |
General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia |
1864 |
Battle of Martinsburg WV |
1864 |
Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin—Nashville Campaign), American Civil War |
1872 |
King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. |
1873 |
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression |
1881 |
Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment |
1882 |
Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) |
1885 |
Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination. |
1888 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG) |
1891 |
Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief |
1895 |
Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address |
1895 |
Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment |
1897 |
Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC |
1898 |
Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan |
1903 |
Phillies' Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0 |
1905 |
Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam |
1906 |
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. |
1908 |
Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 |
1909 |
Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det |
1910 |
25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage |
1911 |
Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
1911 |
Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC |
1914 |
Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I |
1914 |
Gen Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on Eastern Front |
1914 |
Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent |
1914 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1915 |
Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 |
1918 |
Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts |
1919 |
Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage |
1919 |
Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast |
1922 |
2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands |
1922 |
Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush |
1922 |
Hungary admitted to League of Nations |
1924 |
Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking |
1925 |
Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship |
1926 |
46th US Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-0 6-4) |
1926 |
Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 |
1926 |
Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open |
1927 |
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate) |
1928 |
Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 |
1928 |
Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel |
1929 |
Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs |
1929 |
Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup |
1930 |
NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 |
1930 |
Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row |
1931 |
Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo |
1931 |
To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese. |
1932 |
Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign. |
1934 |
St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 |
1934 |
USSR admitted to League of Nations |
1937 |
The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar |
1938 |
Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 |
1938 |
Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 |
1939 |
Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania |
1939 |
William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast. |
1940 |
19 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940 |
Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani |
1942 |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service |
1942 |
The 'extermination asocials through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice |
1943 |
Cardinals clinch NL pennant |
1943 |
Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) |
1944 |
British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed |
1944 |
Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) |
1944 |
US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne |
1945 |
1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration |
1946 |
Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1947 |
National Security Act passes |
1947 |
US Air Force forms |
1948 |
"Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs |
1948 |
Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) |
1948 |
Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine |
1949 |
Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit |
1950 |
Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission |
1954 |
Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) |
1954 |
KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open |
1955 |
Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) |
1956 |
Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon |
1957 |
"Wagon Train" premieres |
1957 |
Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels |
1959 |
Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit |
1960 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games |
1962 |
Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth |
1962 |
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963 |
Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 |
1963 |
USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1964 |
"The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC |
1965 |
"Get Smart" premieres |
1965 |
Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game |
1965 |
"I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup |
1968 |
Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 |
1969 |
Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged |
1971 |
19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri, US) |
1972 |
1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) |
1973 |
German FR & German DR admitted to UN |
1974 |
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die |
1975 |
Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF |
1976 |
Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player |
1976 |
Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election |
1976 |
Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention |
1976 |
Rock Music Award |
1976 |
Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing. |
1977 |
Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore |
1977 |
Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup |
1977 |
Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship |
1977 |
US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together |
1978 |
All four Kiss members release solo albums |
1979 |
Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect |
1979 |
Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge |
1979 |
The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden |
1980 |
'Les Miserables' opens at Palais des Sports, Paris |
1980 |
Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base |
1980 |
Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station |
1981 |
Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. |
1982 |
Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel |
1983 |
George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere |
1983 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1983 |
Lebanese & Syrian army battle |
1983 |
New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 |
1984 |
Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic |
1984 |
Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) |
1984 |
Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons |
1985 |
"Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances |
1985 |
BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston |
1986 |
David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras |
1987 |
Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs |
1987 |
US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
Burma suspends its constitution |
1988 |
Coup in Haiti |
1988 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1989 |
Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico |
1990 |
500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC |
1990 |
Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics |
1990 |
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. |
1990 |
Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs |
1991 |
John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians |
1991 |
NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations |
1991 |
Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee |
1991 |
Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands |
1991 |
Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities. |
1993 |
Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 |
1993 |
LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins |
1993 |
Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3 |
1994 |
1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va |
1994 |
Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5% |
1994 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1994 |
Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS |
1994 |
Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election |
1995 |
Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands |
1996 |
Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts |
1997 |
Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame |
1997 |
Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN |
1997 |
Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy. |
1998 |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed. |
2001 |
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
2003 |
The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent. |
2005 |
57th Emmy Awards: Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Spader & Patricia Arquette win |
2006 |
Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections. |
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. |
2011 |
63rd Emmy Awards: Mad Men, Modern Family, Kyle Chandler & Julianna Margulies win |
2012 |
10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey |
2012 |
26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico |
2012 |
The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike. |
2012 |
World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg |
2014 |
Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom |
2014 |
Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality |
2014 |
8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida |
2016 |
17 Soldiers Killed in Attack at Indian Army Base in Kashmir |
2016 |
Powerful Blast Injures at Least 29 in Manhattan; Second Device Found |
2016 |
Man stabs eight at Minnesota mall, is shot to death by off-duty officer |
2016 |
Four militants, nine Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir attack |
2016 |
New York mayor says evidence Chelsea blast was 'intentional act' |
2016 |
Middle East|US Admits to Strike in Syria That Russia Says Killed 62 Syrian Troops |
2016 |
New York City shaken by 'intentional' explosion, 29 injured |
2016 |
UN Security Council to meet on US-led air strikes in Syria |
2016 |
Minnesota stabbing: Eight injured, suspect shot dead |
2017 |
More than 80 people arrested in St. Louis during 3rd night of protests |
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