About December 18
December 18, 2021 is the 352nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 45 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 18
- 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.
- 1892 –premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
- 1912 –The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1935 –The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
- 1958 –Project SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched.
- 1966 –Saturn’s moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
- 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.
- 1987 –Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
- 1996 –The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring “Ebonics” a language or dialect.
- 1997 –HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
- 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.
- 2006 –United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
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