On this day: 18 September
Events, births and deaths on 18 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Uri attack
100 years ago1926
- Births · Joe Kubert
- Births · Bud Greenspan
- Events · 1926 Miami hurricane
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- 1091 · Births · Andronikos Komnenos
- 958 · Deaths · Liu Cheng
Events · 34
- 324Battle of Chrysopolis — battle
- 1048(Julian date)Battle of Kapetron — battle of the Byzantine–Seljuq wars, 1048
- 1454Battle of Chojnice — 1454 battle of the Thirteen Years' War
- 1739Treaty of Belgrade — 1739 treaty between Austria and the Ottomans
- 1759Articles of Capitulation of Quebec — negotiated agreements on behalf of the French and British crowns
- 1810Chile — country in South America and Oceania, with a claim in Antarctica
- 1810Government Junta of Chile — ruling body of post-colonial Chile from 1810 to 1811
- 1851The New York Times — American daily newspaper (founded 1851)
- 1860Battle of Castelfidardo — 1860 battle of the Risorgimento fought between the Piedmontese and Papal armies
- 1860Battle of Zhangjiawan — 1860 battle during the Second Opium War
- 1864Franklin–Nashville campaign — 1864 military campaign of the American Civil War
- 1867Constitution of Maryland (1867) — constitution of a U.S. State
- 1898Fashoda Incident — imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in Eastern Africa
- 1921Republic of the Rif — self-proclaimed state established between 1921 and 1926 by Mohamed El-Khattabi
- 19261926 Miami hurricane — Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1926
- 1927CBS — American broadcast television and radio network
- 1931Mukden incident — dynamite explosion on railway line near Mukden (Shenyang) in 1931
- 1931
- 1944Battle of Arracourt — 1944 major clash between US and German armored forces near the French town of Arracourt
- 1947Central Intelligence Agency — national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
- 1950Rede Tupi de Televisão — defunct Brazilian broadcast television network
- 19611961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash — aviation accident in Northern Rhodesia on 18 September 1961
- 1962Aeroflot Flight 213 (1962) — aviation accident
- 1964Wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark — September 1964 wedding of Greek monarch Constantine II and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark
- 1988September 1988 Haitian coup d'état — military overthrow of Henri Namphy
- 1989
- 1998ICANN — organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet
- 20012001 anthrax attacks — terrorist attack in the United States
- 20112011 Sikkim earthquake — earthquake
- 20142014 Scottish independence referendum — vote on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom
- 20162016 Uri attack — terrorist attack on the Indian Army base in Uri
- 2018September 2018 inter-Korean summit — 3rd inter-Korean summit meeting held in 2018
- 2022September 2022 Taitung earthquakes — earthquakes in Taiwan
- 20222022 Guizhou bus crash — 2022 road incident in China
Births · 60
- 53(Julian date)Trajan — 13th Roman Emperor (98–117)
- 701(Julian date)Shōmu — Emperor of Japan
- 1434(Julian date)Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress — consort of Frederick III (1434-1467)
- 1587Francesca Caccini — Italian composer
- 1709Samuel Johnson — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
- 1752Adrien-Marie Legendre — French mathematician (1752–1833)
- 1765Gregory XVI — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 (1765–1846)
- 1786Christian VIII of Denmark — King of Norway 1814, King of Denmark 1839-1848
- 1819Léon Foucault — French physicist (1819–1868)
- 1838Anton Mauve — Dutch painter (1838–1888)
- 1872Adolf Schmal — Austrian fencer and cyclist (1872–1919)
- 1876James Scullin — Australian politician, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (1876-1953)
- 1885Uzeyir Hajibeyov — Azerbaijani composer (1885–1948)
- 1895John Diefenbaker — 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1895-1979)
- 1905Greta Garbo — Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)
- 1907Edwin McMillan — American physicist (1907-1991)
- 1920Jack Warden — American actor (1920–2006)
- 1923Queen Anne of Romania — Romanian and Parmese Royal (1923–2016)
- 1929Alla Horska — Soviet painter, Ukrainian dissident (1929-1970)
- 1933Fred Willard — American actor and comedian (1933-2020)
- 1939Jorge Sampaio — President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006
- 1939Frankie Avalon — American actor and singer
- 1942Wolfgang Schäuble — German politician and statesman (1942–2023)
- 1945John McAfee — British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)
- 1947Drew Gilpin Faust — American historian and board member, director at Goldman Sachs
Deaths · 60
- 96(Julian date)Domitian — 11th Roman Emperor (81–96)
- 887Pietro I Candiano — Doge of Venice (842-887)
- 1137Eric II of Denmark — Danish monarch
- 1180(Julian date)Louis VII of France — King of France from 1137 to 1180 (1120–1180)
- 1261(Julian date)Conrad I of Hochstaden — Roman Catholic archbishop
- 1361(Julian date)Louis V, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria, Margrave of Brandenburg, and Count of Tyrol
- 1385(Julian date)Balša II — Serbian military leader
- 1598Toyotomi Hideyoshi — Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)
- 1630Melchior Klesl — Catholic cardinal (1552-1630)
- 1675Charles IV of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1604-1675)
- 1721Matthew Prior — British diplomat, poet (1664-1721)
- 1722André Dacier — French scholar (1651-1722)
- 1783Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
- 1830William Hazlitt — English essayist and writer (1778–1830)
- 1857Karol Kurpiński — Polish composer and conductor (1785-1857)
- 1872Carl XV of Sweden — King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
- 1890Dion Boucicault — Irish actor and dramatist (1820-1890)
- 1896Hippolyte Fizeau — French physicist (1819–1896)
- 1905George MacDonald — Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
- 1915Susan La Flesche Picotte — Omaha Native American, physician, and reformer (1865-1915)
- 1924F. H. Bradley — British philosopher (1846–1924)
- 1939Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz — Polish artist, dramatist and novelist (1885–1939)
- 1941Fred Karno — British theatre manager (1866-1941)
- 1945Volin — Russian anarchist (1882–1945)
- 1949Frank Morgan — actor (1890-1949)
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