SomeFacts | December 18

On this day - December 18

1118 — The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon ...

1271 — Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), ...

1499 — A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced ...

1622 — Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of ...

1655 — The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that ...

1777 — The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking ...

1787 — New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. ...

1833 — The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the ...

1854 — The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes ...

1865 — US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of ...

1867 — A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, ...

1878 — The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

1892 — The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiers in Saint ...

1898 — Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially ...

1916 — World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French ...

1917 — The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth ...

1932 — The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first ...

1935 — The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.

1939 — World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first ...

1944 — The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in ...

1944 — World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese ...

1957 — A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of ...

1958 — Project SCORE, the world's first communications ...

1966 — Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer ...

1972 — Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United ...

1973 — Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts ...

1977 — SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport ...

1977 — United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, ...

1981 — First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the ...

1995 — A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando, Angola, ...

1999 — NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five ...

2002 — California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California ...

2005 — The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly ...

2006 — United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

2006 — The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death ...

2015 — Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, ...

2017 — Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, ...

2019 — The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald ...

2022 — Argentina win the FIFA World Cup final, defeating title ...