About December 18
December 18, 2025 is the 352nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 61 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 18
- 218 BC –Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
- 1271 –Kublai Khan renames his empire “Yuan” (ࠠ3; yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China.
- 1642 –Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
- 1787 –New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1878 –The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar
- 1892 –premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
- 1900 –The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
- 1915 –U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
- 1932 –The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yd long.
- 1944 –World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
- 1956 –Japan joins the United Nations.
- 1966 –Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
- 1969 –Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan’s motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
- 1971 –Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
- 1973 –Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
- 1973 –The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
- 1978 –Dominica joins the United Nations.
- 2010 –Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests
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