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Events on the 18th of September in history

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18 Sep 2014 Tiberius is confirmed as Roman emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
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18 Sep 1996 Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
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18 Sep 0324 Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius
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18 Sep 0324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
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18 Sep 1180 Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
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18 Sep 1437 Farmer uprising in Transsylvania
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18 Sep 1454 In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
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18 Sep 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
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18 Sep 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
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18 Sep 1544 Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy
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18 Sep 1573 Spanish attack Alkmaar
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18 Sep 1618 The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar begins.
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18 Sep 1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
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18 Sep 1635 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
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18 Sep 1679 New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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18 Sep 1714 George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
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18 Sep 1739 Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
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18 Sep 1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
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18 Sep 1739 Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
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18 Sep 1755 Ft Ticonderoga, New York opens
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18 Sep 1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British
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18 Sep 1759 Seven Years' War: The British capture Quebec City.
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18 Sep 1759 British capture Qu
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18 Sep 1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
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18 Sep 1769 Boston Gazette reports 1st US piano (a spinet)
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18 Sep 1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the Presidents and Congress
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18 Sep 1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol Building
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18 Sep 1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
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18 Sep 1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
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18 Sep 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.
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18 Sep 1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
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18 Sep 1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
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18 Sep 1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
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18 Sep 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.
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18 Sep 1830 A horse beats the 1st US made locomotive (near Baltimore)
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18 Sep 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".
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18 Sep 1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
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18 Sep 1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
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18 Sep 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
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18 Sep 1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
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18 Sep 1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
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18 Sep 1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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18 Sep 1851 New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
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18 Sep 1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
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18 Sep 1851 NY Times starts publishing, at 2 a copy
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18 Sep 1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
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18 Sep 1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
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18 Sep 1864 Battle of Martinsburg, West Virginia
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18 Sep 1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
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18 Sep 1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
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18 Sep 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St
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18 Sep 1873 Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
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18 Sep 1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment
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18 Sep 1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
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18 Sep 1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
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18 Sep 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
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18 Sep 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG)
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18 Sep 1889 Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago.
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18 Sep 1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
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18 Sep 1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta compromise" address.
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18 Sep 1895 Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
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18 Sep 1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
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18 Sep 1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
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18 Sep 1898 Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
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18 Sep 1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0
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18 Sep 1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
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18 Sep 1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
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18 Sep 1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
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18 Sep 1908 Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
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18 Sep 1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male / female suffrage
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18 Sep 1910 In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
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18 Sep 1911 Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
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18 Sep 1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
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18 Sep 1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
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18 Sep 1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
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18 Sep 1914 The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
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18 Sep 1914 World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
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18 Sep 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
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18 Sep 1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
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18 Sep 1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
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18 Sep 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
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18 Sep 1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
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18 Sep 1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
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18 Sep 1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
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18 Sep 1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Neth
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18 Sep 1922 Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
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18 Sep 1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
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18 Sep 1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
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18 Sep 1926 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
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18 Sep 1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
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18 Sep 1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
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18 Sep 1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate)
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18 Sep 1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
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18 Sep 1927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air (16 radio stations)
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18 Sep 1928 Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
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18 Sep 1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
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18 Sep 1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
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18 Sep 1929 Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
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18 Sep 1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6
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18 Sep 1930 Philadelphia Athletics win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
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18 Sep 1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
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18 Sep 1931 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
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18 Sep 1931 The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
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18 Sep 1934 St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
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18 Sep 1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
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18 Sep 1938 Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10
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18 Sep 1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
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18 Sep 1939 World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
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18 Sep 1939 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
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18 Sep 1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
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18 Sep 1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
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18 Sep 1940 The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
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18 Sep 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
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18 Sep 1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
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18 Sep 1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
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18 Sep 1943 World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
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18 Sep 1943 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
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18 Sep 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
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18 Sep 1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
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18 Sep 1944 US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
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18 Sep 1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
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18 Sep 1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
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18 Sep 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
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18 Sep 1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Sep 1947 National Security Act, passes
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18 Sep 1947 USAF (US Air Force) forms
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18 Sep 1947 The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
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18 Sep 1947 The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
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18 Sep 1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 performances
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18 Sep 1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso / Sjarifudin)
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18 Sep 1948 Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
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18 Sep 1948 Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
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18 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
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18 Sep 1948 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
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18 Sep 1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
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18 Sep 1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
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18 Sep 1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Sep 1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
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18 Sep 1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
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18 Sep 1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
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18 Sep 1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
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18 Sep 1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
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18 Sep 1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
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18 Sep 1957 "Wagon Train" premiers
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18 Sep 1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
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18 Sep 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
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18 Sep 1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
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18 Sep 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.
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18 Sep 1961 The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
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18 Sep 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
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18 Sep 1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
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18 Sep 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN
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18 Sep 1963 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
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18 Sep 1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
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18 Sep 1964 Greek King Constantine II marries Danish Princess Anne-Marie
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18 Sep 1964 Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
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18 Sep 1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
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18 Sep 1965 "Get Smart" premieres
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18 Sep 1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
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18 Sep 1965 "Get Smart" premiers
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18 Sep 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
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18 Sep 1967 Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup
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18 Sep 1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
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18 Sep 1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
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18 Sep 1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
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18 Sep 1973 German FR and German DR admitted to UN
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18 Sep 1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
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18 Sep 1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
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18 Sep 1975 Heiress / bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
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18 Sep 1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
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18 Sep 1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
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18 Sep 1976 Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
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18 Sep 1976 Rock Music Award
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18 Sep 1977 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
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18 Sep 1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
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18 Sep 1977 Joanne Carner / Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
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18 Sep 1977 Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
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18 Sep 1977 Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
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18 Sep 1977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
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18 Sep 1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
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18 Sep 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
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18 Sep 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
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18 Sep 1980 "Les Miserables, " opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
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18 Sep 1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
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18 Sep 1980 Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
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18 Sep 1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
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18 Sep 1982 Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
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18 Sep 1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
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18 Sep 1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle
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18 Sep 1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
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18 Sep 1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
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18 Sep 1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
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18 Sep 1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
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18 Sep 1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
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18 Sep 1984 Tigers become 4th team to stay in 1st place from opening day
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18 Sep 1985 "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
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18 Sep 1987 US and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
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18 Sep 1987 Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
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18 Sep 1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
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18 Sep 1988 Burma suspends its constitution
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18 Sep 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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18 Sep 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.
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18 Sep 1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
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18 Sep 1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
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18 Sep 1990 A 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
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18 Sep 1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
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18 Sep 1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
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18 Sep 1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
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18 Sep 1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of US Olympic Committee
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18 Sep 1991 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
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18 Sep 1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
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18 Sep 1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
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18 Sep 1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
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18 Sep 1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
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18 Sep 1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
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18 Sep 1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones, Virginia
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18 Sep 1994 Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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18 Sep 1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
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18 Sep 1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns
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18 Sep 1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
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18 Sep 1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
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18 Sep 1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
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18 Sep 1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
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18 Sep 1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
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18 Sep 1997 Al-Qaeda carried out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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18 Sep 1998 ICANN is formed.
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18 Sep 2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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18 Sep 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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18 Sep 2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
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18 Sep 2009 The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
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18 Sep 2011 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
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18 Sep 2013 Cygnus Orb-D1 is launched into space.
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18 Sep 2014 Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
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