About September 18
September 18, 2025 is the 261st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 152 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 18
- 96 –Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
- 1679 –New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1810 –First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
- 1837 –Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
- 1850 –The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
- 1895 –Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
- 1914 –The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- 1919 –Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
- 1919 –The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- 1922 –Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
- 1939 –The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- 1945 –General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
- 1947 –The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
- 1960 –Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
- 1980 –Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
- 1981 –Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
- 1992 –An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
- 1998 –ICANN is formed.
- 2001 –First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- 2009 –The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
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