About September 18
September 18, 2024 is the 262nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 133 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.
- 1635 –Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
- 1679 –New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1838 –The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
- 1872 –King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1879 –The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- 1898 –Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener’s ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
- 1919 –The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- 1927 –The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
- 1939 –World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
- 1943 –World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- 1945 –General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
- 1948 –Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
- 1961 –U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1973 –The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1975 –Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- 1988 –End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
- 1997 –United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
- 2007 –Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
- 2009 –The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
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