About December 18
December 18, 2024 is the 353rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters UETMZASC? Check your answers here: Words with these letters UETMZASC. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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 42 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.
- 1878 –John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
- 1898 –Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
- 1987 –Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
- 1989 –The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
- 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.
- 2002 –2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
- 2005 –The civil war in Chad begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
- 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.
- 2010 –Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out William’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
Share or Link to This Page: