September 18

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September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). There are 104 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events

1.1 100-1899
1.2 1900-1999

2 Births

2.1 1-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 1-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays

Events

100-1899

96 - Nerva elevated as Roman Emperor after Domitian was stabbed to death.
323 - Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1454 - In battle of Chojnice, Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War
1739 - Treaty of Belgrade signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire
1759 - British capture Quebec City
1810 - 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.
1850 - The United States Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing
1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1873 - The Panic of 1873 begins
1895 - Daniel David Palmer makes the first chiropractic adjustment.

1900-1999

1906 - Typhoon with tsunami killed an estimated 10000 persons in Hong Kong
1914 - The Battle of Aisne ends
1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
1931 - Mukden Incident. After that, Japan occupied Manchuria.
1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever turning the sign into a symbol for the paradoxil of the American film industry.
1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized
1943 - The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór
1947 - The United States Department of Defense begins operation (formerly known as National Military Establishment).
1975 - Patty Hearst arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List
1985 - Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six
1990 - Liechtenstein became member of the UN
1992 - The existence of the National Reconnaissance Office, operating since 1960, is declassified.
1997 - Ted Turner donates $1 billion to the United Nations
1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy
1998 - ICANN is formed
2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
2003 - The Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.

Births

1-1899

53 - Trajan, Roman emperor (d. 117)
1709 - Samuel Johnson, essayist, critic, poet (d. 1784)
1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
1733 - George Read, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1772 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
1779 - Joseph Story, Mass, 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45)
1819 - Leon Foucault, physicist (d. 1868)
1870 - Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian)
1876 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
1890 - Vladimir Ambros, composer
1895 - John Diefenbaker, thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)

1900-1999

1901 - Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)
1905 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor (d. 1977)
1905 - Greta Garbo, actress (d. 1990)
1905 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer (d. 1993)
1907 - Leon Askin, actor
1916 - Rossano Brazzi, actor (d. 1994)
1917 - June Foray, voice over actress
1918 - John Berger, politician
1920 - Jack Warden, actor
1923 - Peter Smithson, architect (d. 2003)
1925 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
1926 - Bud Greenspan, documentary film producer, director
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
1928 - Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, pop music singer, composer
1933 - Robert Blake, actor
1933 - Manfred Niehaus, composer
1937 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer
1939 - Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 - Kate (Katherine Jane) Westbrook, English painter, singer (jazz, cabaret), instrumentalist
1940 - Frankie Avalon, musician
1944 - Michael Franks, rocker
1950 - Anna Deavere Smith, conceptual artist
1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian Actress
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, musician (d. 2002)
1952 - Rick Pitino, basketball coach
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician
1959 - Ryne Sandberg, Spokane WA, infielder (Chic Cubs)
1960 - Kim Wilde, Chiswick England, vocalist
1961 - James Gandolfini, actor
1964 - Holly Robinson, actress
1968 - Toni Kukoc, Croatian basketball player
1971 - Lance Armstrong, cycling champion
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, model, actress
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, WNBA basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin, English television presenter

Deaths

1-1899

31 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed
96 - Roman emperor Domitian
993 - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 - Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 - Louis VII, King of France, dies
1261 - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1426 - Hubert Huybrecht van Eyck, painter, dies
1721 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
1783 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician
1792 - Gottlieb August Spangenberg
1827 - Robert Pollok, poet, dies
1831 - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
1860 - Joseph Locke, railway builder and civil engineer

1900-1999

1905 - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1952 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
1964 - Sean O'Casey, playwright
1967 - John Cockcroft, British, physicist (b. 1897)
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician
1973 - Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, novelist
1994 - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis player
1996 - Spiro Agnew

2000-2099

2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, Holocaust survivor, philosopher
2004 - Norman Cantor, historian

Holidays

In ancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Chile: Independence Day (see Events)
In the French Revolutionary Calendar, the "Feast of Genius"

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