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

  • 1809 –
    The Royal Opera House in London opens.
  • 1812 –
    The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
  • 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.
  • 1879 –
    The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
  • 1895 –
    Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
  • 1906 –
    A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
  • 1919 –
    The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
  • 1922 –
    Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
  • 1928 –
    Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • 1934 –
    The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
  • 1947 –
    The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
  • 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.
  • 1980 –
    Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
  • 1984 –
    Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
  • 1991 –
    Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
  • 1998 –
    ICANN is formed.
  • 2001 –
    First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
  • 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.

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