On this day in History - Sep 18

0031 - Sejanus dies executed (b. 0020 BC). Roman head of Praetorian Guard
0053 - Trajan was born (d. 0117). Roman Emperor
0096 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is stabbed to death.
0096 - Domitian dies (b. 0051). Roman Emperor
0323 - Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
0887 - Pietro I Candiano dies killed in battle. Doge of Venice.
1180 - King Louis VII of France dies (b. 1120).

1434 - Nasce, em Torres Novas, D. Leonor de Portugal, imperatriz da Alemanha (m. 3 Set 1467 em Neustadt, Alemanha). Casou em 1451 com Frederico III, imperador da Alemanha, nascendo do consórcio quatro filhos, sendo o primogénito Maximiliano I, que casou com Maria de Borgonha. Na imperatriz D. Leonor radica a linha portuguesa do futuro imperador Carlos V.
1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.

1499 - Vasco da Gama desembarca em Lisboa, após ter realizado a viagem à Índia, sendo recebido pelo rei D. Manuel e toda a Corte.
1587 - Francesca Caccini was born. Italian composer.
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies (b. 1536). Japanese warlord
1630 - Melchior Klesl dies (b. 1552). Austrian cardinal and statesman.

1635 - Nascimento de D. Joana. Filha de D. João IV e D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão (Portugal)
1643 - Gilbert Burnet was born. (d.1715). Scottish Bishop of Salisbury.
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino dies (b. 1603). Italian saint.
1675 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine dies (b. 1604).

1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther was born (d. 1748). German music theorist, organist, and composer.
1681 - Domingo de Videgaray y Saraza dies. Mexican politician.
1709 - Samuel Johnson was born (d. 13 Dec 1784).English writer and lexicographer (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, The Life of Pope, The Life of Savage, The Vanity of Human Wishes)

1718- Nikita Ivanovich Panin was born (d. 1783). Russian statesman.
1721 - Matthew Prior dies (b. 1664). English poet and diplomat.
1722 - André Dacier dies (b. 1651). French classical scholar.
1733 - George Read was born (d. 1798). American judge and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre was born († 1833). French mathematicien.
1759 - The British capture Quebec City.
1765 - Pope Gregory XVI was born (d. 1846)
1779 - Joseph Story was born (d. 1845). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1783 - Leonhard Euler dies (b. 1707). Swiss mathematician.
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.
1819 - Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born († 1868). French physicist and astronomer.
1827 - Robert Pollok dies (b. 1789). Scottish poet.
1830 - Juan Bautista Bustos dies. Argentine militar and politician.
1832 - Tomás Martín Feuillet was born. Panamanian poet and writer.

1838 - Anton Mauve was born (d. 5 Feb 1888). Dutch painter.
1850 - The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing.
1854 - Florentino Ameghino was born. Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, antropologist and teacher.
1857 - John Hessin Clarke was born (d. 1945). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1860 - Joseph Locke dies (b. 1805). English railway builder and civil engineer.

1865 - Rendição do Paraguai.

1865 - O Palácio de Cristal é inaugurado, no Porto.
1870 - Clark Wissler was born (d. 1947). American anthropologist.
1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 - The Panic of 1873 begins.
1876 - James Scullin was born (d. 1953). Ninth Prime Minister of Australia.
1888 - Sinhô (José Barbosa da Silva) was born († 1930). Brazilian composer.
1889 - Doris Blackburn was born (d. 1970). Australian politician.
1891 - José Manuel Balmaceda Fernández dies. Chilean politician.

1893 - Arthur Benjamim was born. Australian composer and pianist.

1894 - Ermilo Abreu Gómez was born in Mérida, Yucatán (d. 1971). Mexican novelist and dramatist.
1895 - John Diefenbaker was born (d. 16 Aug 1979). Thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1895 - Daniel David Palmer makes the first chiropractic adjustment.
1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau dies (b. 1819). French physicist.

1899 - Carlos Botelho was born (d. 1982). Portuguese painter.
1899 - Eleazar Guzman Barron was born. Peruvian physician and biochemist.
1901 - Harold Clurman was born (d. 1980). American producer and director.
1904 - Fundação do América Football Club (Brasil)
1904 - Perú, se funda el Lawn Tenis Club, de Lima.
1905 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson was born (d. 28 Feb 1977). American actor (Jack Benny Show, Birth of the Blues, Gone with the Wind, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World).

1905 - Greta Garbo was born (d. 15 Apr 1990). Swedish actress (Camille, Grand Hotel, Ninotchka, Mata Hari, The Painted Veil, Anna Christie).

1905 - Agnes de Mille was born (d. 1993). American dancer and choreographer.
1905 - George MacDonald dies (b. 1824). Scottish writer and minister.
1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10000 persons in Hong Kong.
1907 - Leon Askin was born (d. 2005). Austrian actor.
1914 - The Battle of Aisne ends
1915 - Eduardo Boza Masvidal was born. Cuban religious.
1916 - Mercedes Salisachs was born. Spanish writer.
1916 - Rossano Brazzi was born (d. 24 Dec 1994). Italian singer and actor ( South Pacific, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Barefoot Contessa, Formula for a Murder).
1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr. was born (d. 2003) American politician and lawyer.
1917 - June Foray was born. American voice actress
1918 - John Berger was born. English politician.
1918 - José Pérez Gil was born. Spanish painter.
1920 - Jack Warden was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: Brian’s Song [1971-72]; N.Y.P.D., Bad News Bears, Crazy like a Fox, Shampoo, From Here to Eternity, All the President’s Men, Problem Child, Used Cars.
1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen was born. English composer.
1923 - Peter Smithson was born (d. 2003). English architect.
1924 - Eloísa Mafalda (Mafalda Theoto) was born in Jundiaí, S. Paulo. Brazilian actress
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley dies (b. 1846). British philosopher.
1925 - Harvey Haddix was born. Baseball player
1926 - Bud Greenspan was born. American film producer and director.
1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 - Phyllis Kirk was born. American actress
1930 - Ignace Moussa I Daoud was born. Cardinal of Síria
1931 - Mukden Incident, a.k.a "9.18 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 paradox of the American film industry.
1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov was born (d. 2002). Cosmonaut .
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers was born. American singer and composer
1933 - Robert Blake was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: Baretta [1974-75]; In Cold Blood, Pork Chop Hill, PT 109, Our Gang, Little Beaver & Red Ryder series

1934 - A URSS é admitida nas Nações Unidas.
1939 - Fred Willard was born. American comedian
1939 - Jorge Sampaio was born in Lisbon. President of Portugal since 9 Mar 1986.
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz dies (b. 1885). Polish writer, painter, and photographer
1940 - Frankie Avalon was born. American musician.
1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized
1943 - The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1944 - Michael Franks was born. American musician
1944 - Rocío Jurado was born. Spanish singer and actress.
1946 - Sancionada uma nova Constituição Brasileira
1947 - The United States Department of Defense begins operation (formerly known as National Military Establishment).
1947 - Giancarlo Minardi was born . Founder and director general of Minardi Fórmula 1 team.

1948 - José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo dies in Cascais. Portuguese architect and film director (A Canção de Lisboa)
1949 - Peter Shilton was born. English footballer.
1949 - Frank Morgan dies (b. 1890). American actor.
1950 - Anna Deavere Smith was born. American actress and playwright
1950 - Shabana Azmi was born. Indian actress.
1950 - Darryl Sittler was born. Canadian hockey player.
1951 - Benjamin Carson was born. American neurosurgeon.
1952 - Maria Matos dies (b. 29 Set 1891). Portuguese actress and teatral entrepreneur [As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor” (1935 - Leitão de Barros)]

1952 - Dee Dee Ramone was born (d. 2002). American bassist (The Ramones).
1952 - Rick Pitino was born. American basketball coach.
1952 - Douglas Colvin was born. American musician.
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto was born (d.1996). Pakistani politician.
1954 - Steven Pinker was born. Canadian linguist ans psychologist.
1954 - Armando Reverón dies. Venezuelan painter.
1958 - John Aldridge was born. English footballer.
1959 - Ryne Sandberg was born. baseball player.
1961 - James Gandolfini was born. American Emmy Award-winning actor: The Sopranos [2000, 2001]; A Stranger Among Us, Terminal Velocity, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Juror, 12 Angry Men [1997], A Civil Action, 8MM
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld dies (b. 1905). Swedish diplomat. Secretary General of United Nations.
1963 - Rob Brettle was born. English historian
1964 - Holly Robinson was born. American actress.
1964 - Clive Bell dies (b. 1881). English art critic
1964 - Sean O'Casey dies (b. 1880). Irish writer.
1967 - John Cockcroft dies (b. 1897). British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1968 - Toni Kukoc was born. Croatian basketball player
1970 - Darren Gough was born. English cricketer.
1970 - Fundação do MRPP, embrião do Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (PCTP/MRPP).
1970 - Jimi Hendrix dies (b. 1942). American musician.
1971 - Lance Armstrong was born. American cyclist
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith was born. American model and actress ( The Nutty Professor, A Different World, Menace II Society, If These Walls Could Talk, Scream 2, Woo, Bamboozled, Collateral ).
1973 - Aitor Karanka de la Hoz was born. Spanish football player.
1973 - James Marsden was born. American actor.
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth was born. South Africana cosmonaut.
1973 - Alemanha e Bahamas são admitidas como Estados-Membro da ONU
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro was born. Portuguese basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin was born. English television presenter.
1975 - Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1976 - Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing
1979 - Alison Lohman was born. American actress.
1979 - Daniel Aranzubia Aguado was born. Spanish football player.
1979 - Santa Lúcia é admitida como Estado-Membro da ONU
1980 - Katherine Anne Porter dies (b. 1890). American novelist.

1981 - É abolida em França a execução por meio da guilhotina.
1985 - Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer.
1985 - Guilherme Dedekind was born. Brazilian photoghrapher.
1987 - Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás dies (b. 1894). President of Portugal.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six.
1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1990 - O COI, reunido en Tokio, elege Atlanta como sede dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1996.
1992 - The existence of the National Reconnaissance Office, operating since 1960, is declassified. 1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis dies (b. 1954). American tennis player.
1995 - Henriqueta Brieba dies (b. 1901). Actress.
1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy
1998 - ICANN is formed.
1999 - Percy Spencer tem seu nome incluído no National Inventors Hall of Fame pela invenção do forno de microondas
2000 - Xia YANG quebra recorde olímpico de halterofilismo para mulheres no estilo Galo (até 53kg)
2001 - Ernie Coombs dies (b. 1927). Canadian entertainer.
2002 - Bob Hayes dies (b. 1942). American athlete
2003 - Emil Fackenheim dies (b. 1916). German Holocaust survivor and philosopher.
2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
2003 - The UK's Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.

2003 - Robert G. Bartle dies at 75. US mathematician. Author of The Elements of Real Analysis (1964), Introduction to Real Analysis (1982)
2004 - Chegou às bancas notícia sobre suspeita de compra votos de partidos aliados ao governo brasileiro (v. Mensalão)
2004 - Norman Cantor dies (b. 1929). Canadian historian.
2004 - Furacão Jeanne chega ao Haiti
In ancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
RC Saints - Feast day of St Joseph of Cupertino and Methodius of Olympus
Also see September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Chile - Independence Day (first junta 1810)
In the French Revolutionary Calendar, the "Feast of Genius"
Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chinese calendar (2005)