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
- 1635 –Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
- 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”.
- 1870 –Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
- 1879 –The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- 1906 –A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
- 1914 –The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- 1919 –The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- 1928 –Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
- 1943 –World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- 1948 –Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam’s Army.
- 1959 –Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
- 1960 –Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
- 1962 –Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1975 –Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- 1977 –Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
- 1982 –Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
- 1992 –An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
- 1997 –United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
- 1998 –ICANN is formed.
- 2007 –Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
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