On this day in History - Sep 18

• 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.
• 1437 - Farmer uprising in Transylvania.
• 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.
• 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
• 1544 - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty.
• 1573 - Spanish attack Alkmaar.
• 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)
• 1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France.
• 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).
• 1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 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.
• 1789 - American government takes out first ever loan, a total of $191,608.81.
• 1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
• 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens.
• 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.
• 1812 - Herschel Johnson was born in Burke County, Georgia. Polotician and judge
• 1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churches.
• 1819 - Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born († 1868). French physicist and astronomer.
• 1827 - Robert Pollok dies (b. 1789). Scottish poet.
• 1830 - A horse beats the first U.S.-made locomotive near Baltimore.
• 1830 - Juan Bautista Bustos dies. Argentine militar and politician.
• 1832 - Tomás Martín Feuillet was born. Panamanian poet and writer.
• 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden.
• 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 at 2 cents a copy .
• 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 - In the Italian War of Independence, 40,000 Sardinian troops under Cialdini heavily defeat 4,000 Papal troops under La Moriciere at the battle of Castelfidardo.
• 1860 - Joseph Locke dies (b. 1805). English railway builder and civil engineer.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga
• 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.
• 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board).
• 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
• 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 - Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia. See more here
• 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.
• 1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
• 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 - América Football Club is founded (Brazil)
• 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.
• 1910 - In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general male/female suffrage.
• 1914 - The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
• 1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
• 1915 - Eduardo Boza Masvidal was born. Cuban religious.
• 1916 - Bernardino da Costa Lopes died (b. in Boa Esperança, Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, on 19 Jan 1859). Brazilian poet
• 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.
• 1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• 1919 - Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
• 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 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations.
• 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 - 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (6-4, 6-0, 6-4)
• 1926 - Bud Greenspan was born. American film producer and director.
• 1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• 1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• 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. Japan begins the siege of Mukden, using bomber seaplanes, and occupies other strategic points in Manchuria, an act of aggression that marked the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war.
• 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 Bennett was born. American senator
• 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 serie
• 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations / A URSS é admitida nas Nações Unidas.
• 1939 - World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
• 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
• 1939 - Fred Willard was born. American comedian
• 1939 - Jorge Sampaio was born in Lisbon. President of Portugal (9 Mar 1986-9 Mar 2006).
• 1939 - Frankie Avalon, was born. American musician
• 1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz dies (b. 1885). Polish writer, painter, and photographer
• 1940 - World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
• 1940 - Frankie Avalon was born. American musician.
• 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized
• 1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
• 1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews.
• 1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru, 5,600 killed.
• 1944 - Michael Franks was born. American musician
• 1944 - Rocío Jurado was born. Spanish singer and actress.
• 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
• 1945 - In Gary, Indiana, 1000 whites walk out of schools to protest integration.
• 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.
• 1947 - Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, making it the venue's first country performance.
• 1948 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies.
• 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• 1948 - Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine.
• 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), Heróis do Mar (1949) .... Petinga's wife, A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1949) .... D. Vitória ; Não Há Rapazes Maus (1948) ; Um Homem às Direitas (1945) .... House-keeper ;A Menina da Rádio (1944) .... D. Rosa Gonçalves ; Costa do Castelo, O (1943) .... Mafalda da Silveira; Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939) ]
• 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 and psychologist.
• 1954 - Armando Reverón dies. Venezuelan painter.
• 1958 - John Aldridge was born. English footballer.
• 1959 - Ryne Sandberg was born. baseball player.
• 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
• 1960 - Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• 1961 - 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.
• 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.
• 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi and Jamaica admitted (105th-108th) to the United Nations
• 1963 - Rob Brettle was born. English historian.
• 1964 - Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
• 1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
• 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 - Esporte Clube Santo André, from Brazil, is founded.
• 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 - Germany: Thalidomide trial - The trial concerning the thalidomide tranquiliser that caused deformities in thousands of newly born babies ended with the end of its production
• 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 ).
• 1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK.
• 1973 - East and West Germany and the Bahamas are admitted to the United Nations.are admitted to the United Nations.
• 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
• 1973 - Mário Jardel was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die.
• 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
• 1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
• 1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
• 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 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
• 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter dies (b. 1890). American novelist.
• 1981 - É abolida em França a execução por meio da guilhotina.
• 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
• 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic.
• 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.
• 1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear war heads by USA and USSR.
• 1988 - Burma suspends its constitution. Military begun deadly offensive against prodemocracy demonstrators, killing thousands of people across the country.
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six.
• 1989 - Israel and Hungary restore full diplomatic ties after a 22-year break.
• 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1990 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics / 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.
• 1994 - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
• 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis dies (b. 1954). American tennis player.
• 1995 - Henriqueta Brieba dies (b. 1901). Actress.
• 1996 - Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens matches his own record for strikeouts in a single game when he fans 20 batters, ten years after accomplishing the feat the first time
• 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy
• 1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
• 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
• 1998 - ICANN is formed.
• 1999 - Sammy Sosa became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 homers in two seasons.
• 1999 - Percy Spencer tem seu nome incluído no National Inventors Hall of Fame pela invenção do forno de microondas
• 1999 - Leo Valiani dies aged 90. Senator and the man who signed Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s death notice and became one of the founding fathers of the Italian republic.
• 2000 - Xia YANG quebra recorde olímpico de halterofilismo para mulheres no estilo Galo (até 53kg)
• 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• 2001 - Ernie Coombs dies (b. 1927). Canadian entertainer.
• 2002 - Bob Hayes dies (b. 1942). American athlete
• 2002 - The body of missing school girl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire. Ending a six month search for the missing schoolgirl.
• 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
• 2004 - Russ Meyer dies (b. 1922). American film director.
• 2005 - Michael Park dies (b. 1966). British Rally co-driver.
• 2005 - Federal elections are held in Germany. Provisional results give the CDU/CSU 35.2% of the vote and 225 seats, the SPD 34.3% and 222 seats, FDP 9.8% and 61 seats, the Left Party 8.7% and 54 seats, and the Green party 8.1% and 51 seats. There is likely to be several weeks of horse trading to form a workable coalition.
• 2005 - Russia wins the Fed Cup title for second straight year, beating France 3:2 in the final ( tennis for female national teams).
• 2006 - The CW Television Network launches.
• In ancient Greece, the fifth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• RC Saints - Feast day of St Joseph of Cupertino, Methodius of Olympus and Richardis
• 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)