About December 18
December 18, 2023 is the 352nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 54 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.
- 1642 –Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
- 1777 –The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
- 1787 –New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1878 –John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
- 1888 –Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
- 1898 –Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car.
- 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.
- 1917 –The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
- 1935 –The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
- 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.
- 1958 –Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
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