September 18

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The September 18 is the 261st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 262nd in leap years ), thus remain 104 days by year end.

Historical Anniversaries
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events

Politics and world events
96 AD: Domitian
Barricade fighting in Frankfurt, 1848
1860: Battle of Castelfidardo
1931: Japanese troops in Shenjang

business

science and technology

  • 1895: Daniel David Palmer works as the first chiropractor . He corrects a displaced vertebra of a patient, which gives the latter back his hearing ability.
  • 1959: As part of the Vanguard project , the United States finally places the Vanguard 3 satellite in a near-earth orbit .
  • 1965: Japanese amateur astronomers discover comet Ikeya-Seki . The comet will later become so bright that it can be seen next to the sun during the day . It is considered to be one of the most striking comets of the second millennium after Christ.
  • 1977: Voyager I takes a photo for the first time in which the earth and moon can be seen (in full) together.
  • 1984: For reasons of environmental protection, the German decides federal government , the vehicle catalyst to make from 1989 to duty.
  • 1984: The American Joseph Kittinger descends on his first solo trip in a gas balloon across the Atlantic after a flight time of 83:40 hours near Cairo Montenotte in northern Italy.
1997: The Zeppelin NT

Culture

1808: The Royal Opera House
1952: Charlie Chaplin
1957: The Berlin Congress Hall
  • 1957: The Berlin Congress Hall is opened to the public.
  • 1979: The first Ars Electronica opens in Linz with a “ cloud of sound ” .
  • 1994: SFB 4 Multi Kulti, the first 24-hour program for foreigners, goes on air in Berlin . The program will be discontinued at the end of 2008 for cost reasons.
  • 2006: The new station The CW starts broadcasting in the USA . The station is the result of a merger between The WB and UPN .

society

religion

Disasters

  • 1906: Hong Kong is hit by a typhoon followed by a tidal wave, killing around 10,000 people.
  • 1916: 62 people die when the dam on the White Desse in the Jizera Mountains breaks .
  • 1940: The British ocean liner City of Benares is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 48 without warning in front of the Rockall sandbank . Among the 248 fatalities, 77 are children from a UK child rescue program.
  • 1974: Hurricane Fifi attracts over Honduras , approximately 10,000 deaths.
  • 1994: Violent volcanic eruptions occur on the island of New Britain , which almost completely destroy the city of Rabaul .
  • 1998: The Princess of the Orient , the largest ferry in the Philippines , capsizes in strong winds and waves after a typhoon . 150 of the 388 passengers lose their lives.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

1870: Old Faithful

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Trajan (* 53)

  • Eleanor of Portugal (* 1436)

  • Ludwig X. of Bavaria (* 1495)

  • Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (* 1545)

  • Niccolo Sagredo (* 1606)

  • Albrecht II of Brandenburg-Ansbach (* 1620)

  • Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg (* 1676)

  • Johann Gottfried Walther (* 1684)

18th century

  • Samuel Johnson (* 1709)

  • Gregory XVI. (* 1765)

  • Christian VIII of Denmark (* 1786)

  • Justinus Kerner (* 1786)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Heinrich Laube (* 1806)

  • Mihail Kogălniceanu (* 1817)

  • Jean Foucault (* 1819)

  • Siegfried Marcus (* 1831)

1851-1900

  • Hans Wagner (* 1852)

  • Hermann Weil (* 1868)

  • Fritz Stavenhagen (* 1876)

  • Gustav Schwantes (* 1881)

  • Carmine Gallon (* 1886)

  • John Diefenbaker (* 1895)

  • Mahmud Fauzi (* 1900)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Greta Garbo (* 1905)

  • Viktor Hambardsumjan (* 1908)

  • Josef Tal (* 1910)

  • Jack Warden (* 1920)

1926-1950

  • Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (* 1939)

  • Frankie Avalon (born 1940)

  • Wolfgang Schäuble (* 1942)

  • Gunther Emmerlich (* 1944)

1951-1975

  • Peter Bofinger (* 1954)

  • Tom Wright (born 1957)

  • James Gandolfini (* 1961)

  • Tara Fitzgerald (* 1967)

  • Lance Armstrong (born 1971)

  • Anna Netrebko (* 1971)

  • Jada Pinkett Smith (born 1971)

  • Xzibit (* 1974)

1976-2000

  • Alison Lohman (* 1979)

  • Carolin Hingst (* 1980)

  • Johanna Uekermann (* 1987)

Died

Before the 17th century

  • Domitian († 96)

  • Erik II of Denmark († 1137)

  • Louis VII of France († 1180)

  • Ludwig V of Brandenburg and Upper Bavaria († 1361)

  • Adolf von Kleve († 1492)

  • John Colet († 1519)

  • Ottavio Farnese († 1586)

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi († 1598)

17th and 18th centuries

  • Melchior Khlesl († 1630)

  • Charles IV of Lorraine († 1675)

  • Leopoldo Retti († 1751)

  • Leonhard Euler († 1783)

19th century

  • John Langdon († 1819)

  • Charles XV of Sweden († 1872)

  • José Manuel Balmaceda († 1891)

  • Rafael Núñez († 1894)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Herbert von Bismarck († 1904)

  • George MacDonald († 1905)

  • Pyotr Stolypin († 1911)

  • Leopold of Bavaria († 1930)

  • Bernhard Bästlein († 1944)

  • Franz Jacob († 1944)

  • Anton Saefkow († 1944)

1951-2000

  • Dag Hammarskjöld († 1961)

  • Ahmad ibn Yahya († 1962)

  • Therese Neumann († 1962)

  • Jimi Hendrix († 1970)

  • Rudolf Nebel († 1978)

  • Américo Tomás († 1987)

  • Annabella († 1996)

  • Kurt Hager († 1998)

21st century

  • Russ Meyer († 2004)

  • Walter Womacka († 2010)

  • Santiago Carrillo († 2012)

  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki († 2013)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

Commons : September 18th  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Voyager 1 takes 1st photos of Earth and moon, September 18, 1977. September 18, 2015, accessed September 9, 2016 .