September 18 Events |
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| September 18th, 2007 (September 18 2007) | Event | 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 | |
| September 18th, 2007 (September 18 2007) | Event | Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution | |
| September 18th, 2006 (September 18 2006) | Event | 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 Gyurcsany admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections. | |
| September 18th, 2003 (September 18 2003) | Event | Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S. | |
| September 18th, 2003 (September 18 2003) | Event | The UK s Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent. | |
| September 18th, 2002 (September 18 2002) | Event | The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire, ending a six-month search. | |
| September 18th, 2001 (September 18 2001) | Event | First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | |
| September 18th, 1998 (September 18 1998) | Event | ICANN is formed. | |
| September 18th, 1997 (September 18 1997) | Event | U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations. | Ted Turner Quotes |
| September 18th, 1997 (September 18 1997) | Event | Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy. | |
| September 18th, 1996 (September 18 1996) | Event | Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated. | |
| September 18th, 1992 (September 18 1992) | Event | An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labour dispute, killing 9 replacement workers. | |
| September 18th, 1991 (September 18 1991) | Event | Yugoslavia began a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities. | |
| September 18th, 1990 (September 18 1990) | Event | Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. | |
| September 18th, 1989 (September 18 1989) | Event | Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six. | |
| September 18th, 1988 (September 18 1988) | Event | 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. | |
| September 18th, 1987 (September 18 1987) | Event | Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| September 18th, 1984 (September 18 1984) | Event | Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. | |
| September 18th, 1982 (September 18 1982) | Event | Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon. | |
| September 18th, 1981 (September 18 1981) | Event | Assemblee Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France | |
| September 18th, 1980 (September 18 1980) | Event | Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. | |
| September 18th, 1978 (September 18 1978) | Event | Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David. | |
| September 18th, 1977 (September 18 1977) | Event | Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together. | |
| September 18th, 1976 (September 18 1976) | Event | Mao Zedong s funeral takes place in Beijing. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| September 18th, 1975 (September 18 1975) | Event | Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List. | |
| September 18th, 1974 (September 18 1974) | Event | Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people. | |
| September 18th, 1973 (September 18 1973) | Event | East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. | |
| September 18th, 1972 (September 18 1972) | Event | First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK. | Idi Amin Quotes |
| September 18th, 1970 (September 18 1970) | Event | Jimi Hendrix dies after choking on his own vomit. | Jimi Hendrix Quotes |
| September 18th, 1967 (September 18 1967) | Event | Esporte Clube Santo Andre, of Brazil, is founded. | |
| September 18th, 1964 (September 18 1964) | Event | Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie. | |
| September 18th, 1964 (September 18 1964) | Event | North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. | |
| September 18th, 1962 (September 18 1962) | Event | Rwanda, Burundi and Jamaica admitted to the United Nations. | |
| September 18th, 1961 (September 18 1961) | Event | U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Dag Hammarskjold Quotes |
| September 18th, 1960 (September 18 1960) | Event | Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| September 18th, 1959 (September 18 1959) | Event | Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit. | |
| September 18th, 1948 (September 18 1948) | Event | Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies. | |
| September 18th, 1948 (September 18 1948) | Event | 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. | Margaret Chase Smith Quotes |
| September 18th, 1948 (September 18 1948) | Event | Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator for Palestine and Israel. | |
| September 18th, 1947 (September 18 1947) | Event | The United States Air Force becomes an independent service. | |
| September 18th, 1945 (September 18 1945) | Event | Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| September 18th, 1944 (September 18 1944) | Event | World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru, 5,600 killed. | |
| September 18th, 1943 (September 18 1943) | Event | World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibor. | |
| September 18th, 1943 (September 18 1943) | Event | World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews. | |
| September 18th, 1942 (September 18 1942) | Event | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized. | |
| September 18th, 1940 (September 18 1940) | Event | World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani. | |
| September 18th, 1939 (September 18 1939) | Event | World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Moscicki flees to Romania. | |
| September 18th, 1939 (September 18 1939) | Event | William Joyce s first Nazi propaganda broadcast. | |
| September 18th, 1934 (September 18 1934) | Event | USSR admitted to League of Nations. | |
| September 18th, 1932 (September 18 1932) | Event | Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign. | |
| September 18th, 1931 (September 18 1931) | Event | The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. | |
| September 18th, 1928 (September 18 1928) | Event | Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. | |
| September 18th, 1927 (September 18 1927) | Event | Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. | |
| September 18th, 1922 (September 18 1922) | Event | Hungary admitted to League of Nations. | |
| September 18th, 1919 (September 18 1919) | Event | The Netherlands gives women the right to vote. | |
| September 18th, 1919 (September 18 1919) | Event | Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros. | |
| September 18th, 1914 (September 18 1914) | Event | The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. | |
| September 18th, 1914 (September 18 1914) | Event | World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa. | |
| September 18th, 1911 (September 18 1911) | Event | Russian Premier Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera House | |
| September 18th, 1910 (September 18 1910) | Event | In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage. | |
| September 18th, 1906 (September 18 1906) | Event | A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. | |
| September 18th, 1898 (September 18 1898) | Event | Fashoda IncidentLord Kitchener s ships reach Fashoda, Sudan. | |
| September 18th, 1895 (September 18 1895) | Event | Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address. | |
| September 18th, 1895 (September 18 1895) | Event | Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment. | |
| September 18th, 1885 (September 18 1885) | Event | Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination. | |
| September 18th, 1882 (September 18 1882) | Event | Pacific Stock Exchange opens. | |
| September 18th, 1879 (September 18 1879) | Event | Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time. | |
| September 18th, 1873 (September 18 1873) | Event | The Panic of 1873 begins. | |
| September 18th, 1872 (September 18 1872) | Event | King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | |
| September 18th, 1863 (September 18 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga. | |
| September 18th, 1851 (September 18 1851) | Event | The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing. | |
| September 18th, 1850 (September 18 1850) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act. | |
| September 18th, 1838 (September 18 1838) | Event | Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden. | |
| September 18th, 1837 (September 18 1837) | Event | 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". | |
| September 18th, 1812 (September 18 1812) | Event | Fire of Moscow (1812) fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire. | |
| September 18th, 1810 (September 18 1810) | Event | 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. | |
| September 18th, 1809 (September 18 1809) | Event | Royal Opera House in London opens. | |
| September 18th, 1793 (September 18 1793) | Event | The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington. | George Washington Quotes |
| September 18th, 1759 (September 18 1759) | Event | The British capture Quebec City. | |
| September 18th, 1739 (September 18 1739) | Event | The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire. | |
| September 18th, 1679 (September 18 1679) | Event | New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |
| September 18th, 1635 (September 18 1635) | Event | Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France. | |
| September 18th, 1573 (September 18 1573) | Event | Spanish attack on Alkmaar. | |
| September 18th, 1544 (September 18 1544) | Event | Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty (Truce of Crepy-en-Laonnois) | |
| September 18th, 1502 (September 18 1502) | Event | Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| September 18th, 1454 (September 18 1454) | Event | In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years War. | |
| September 18th, 1180 (September 18 1180) | Event | Philip Augustus becomes king of France. | |
| September 18th, 0324 (September 18 0324) | Event | Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine s sole control over the Roman Empire. | |
