SomeFacts | September 18

On this day - September 18

96 — Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his ...

324 — Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle ...

1048 — Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army ...

1066 — Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at ...

1180 — Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.

1454 — Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the ...

1544 — The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San ...

1618 — The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ...

1714 — George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on ...

1739 — The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands ...

1759 — French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec ...

1793 — The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by ...

1809 — The Royal Opera House in London opens.

1810 — First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only ...

1812 — The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than ...

1837 — Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded ...

1838 — The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

1850 — The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

1851 — First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later ...

1860 — Wars of Italian Unification: Battle of Castelfidardo: Royal ...

1860 — Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards ...

1862 — The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a ...

1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between ...

1864 — American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the ...

1867 — The fourth and current State Constitution of Maryland is ...

1867 — The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative ...

1870 — During an expedition to the Wyoming Territory, Henry D. ...

1873 — The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, ...

1879 — The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

1882 — The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

1885 — Five Chinese people were lynched outside of Pierce City in the ...

1897 — Veal Oscar, a dish of veal, seafood, asparagus, and Bernaise ...

1898 — The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between ...

1906 — The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.

1910 — In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first ...

1914 — The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until ...

1915 — The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story ...

1919 — In the Netherlands, a law granting full voting rights to women ...

1919 — Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play ...

1921 — Rif War: In Ajdir, Spanish Morocco, a secessionist group of ...

1922 — The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.

1924 — The U.S. ends its military occupation of the Dominican ...

1926 — A hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, killing 372 people.

1927 — The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1928 — Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the ...

1931 — Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden incident as a pretext to ...

1932 — The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two ...

1934 — The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.

1939 — World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins ...

1939 — World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees ...

1941 — World War II: The Soviet Union introduces conscription for all ...

1943 — World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.

1944 — World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the ...

1944 — World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes ...

1945 — General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from ...

1947 — The National Security Act reorganizes the United States ...

1948 — Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected ...

1948 — Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the ...

1950 — TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in ...

1950 — Korean War: U.S. Eighth Army and United Nations forces break ...

1954 — Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western ...

1955 — A four-person landing party, led by Lt.-Cdr. Desmond Scott RN, ...

1958 — The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the ...

1960 — Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban ...

1961 — United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an ...

1962 — Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky ...

1962 — Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted ...

1964 — The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's ...

1964 — The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess ...

1965 — Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart ...

1973 — The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the ...

1974 — Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing ...

1977 — Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and ...

1980 — Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the ...

1981 — The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in ...

1984 — Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the ...

1988 — The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles ...

1988 — General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power ...

1988 — The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.

1989 — An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president ...

1990 — Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

1992 — An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor ...

1997 — The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

1997 — United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to ...

2001 — First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in ...

2006 — The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the ...

2007 — Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, ...

2009 — After 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television ...

2010 — Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim ...

2011 — The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, ...

2014 — Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, ...

2015 — Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 ...

2016 — The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist ...

2017 — Toy retail chain Toys "R" Us files for bankruptcy ...

2018 — Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the ...