Historical Events
18 Sep 1454
In the Battle of Chojnice the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years War.
18 Sep 1679
New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
18 Sep 1739
Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
18 Sep 1759
Battle of Quebec ends French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
18 Sep 1769
John Harris of Boston Massachusetts builds 1st spinet piano
18 Sep 1789
1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
18 Sep 1810
Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
18 Sep 1838
Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
18 Sep 1842
1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published
18 Sep 1848
Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
18 Sep 1850
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of
18 Sep 1851
New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
18 Sep 1862
Confederate armies officially divide into corps
18 Sep 1862
General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
18 Sep 1863
British Open Mens Golf Prestwick GC Willie Park Sr. wins his 2nd title beats rival Tom Morris Sr. by 2 strokes
18 Sep 1864
Hoods Tennessee campaign begins (also called The FranklinNashville Campaign) American Civil War
18 Sep 1872
King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
18 Sep 1873
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses causing panic on Wall St the start of the panic of and the Long depression
18 Sep 1881
Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
18 Sep 1882
Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
18 Sep 1885
Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
18 Sep 1891
Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
18 Sep 1895
Daniel David Palmer of Davenport Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
18 Sep 1897
Gustave KeckerHugh Martins musical Belle of New York City premieres in NYC
18 Sep 1903
Phillies Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs 10-0
18 Sep 1906
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10000 people in Hong Kong.
18 Sep 1908
Cleveland Indian Bob Dusty Rhoades no-hits Boston 2-1
18 Sep 1909
Largest paid baseball attendance (35409) As beat Tigers 2-0 in Det
18 Sep 1910
25000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general malefemale suffrage
18 Sep 1911
Britains 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
18 Sep 1914
Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
18 Sep 1914
South African troops land in German South West Africa
18 Sep 1919
Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
18 Sep 1922
2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
18 Sep 1922
Browns George Sislers 41-game hit streak is stopped by NYs Joe Bush
18 Sep 1926
US National Championship Mens Tennis Frenchman Ren Lacoste wins first of 2 straight US titles beats countryman Jean Borotra 6-4 6-0 6-4
18 Sep 1927
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate)
18 Sep 1928
Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in
18 Sep 1928
Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
18 Sep 1929
Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
18 Sep 1929
Preston Sturges Strictly Dishonorable premieres in NYC
18 Sep 1930
Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th Americas Cup
18 Sep 1930
NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns 7-6
18 Sep 1930
Philadelphia As win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
18 Sep 1931
To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria China a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
18 Sep 1932
Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter H in the Hollywood sign
18 Sep 1934
St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10 2-1
18 Sep 1937
The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar
18 Sep 1938
Despite losing a double header Yanks clinch pennant 10
18 Sep 1939
Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
18 Sep 1939
William Joyces first Nazi propaganda broadcast
18 Sep 1940
Elmer Harris Johnny Belinda premieres in NYC
18 Sep 1942
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
18 Sep 1942
The order for extermination asocials through labour is approved by Otto Thierack Nazi minister of justice
18 Sep 1944
British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru 5600 killed including 1377 allied POWs and 4200 Javanese slave labourers.
18 Sep 1945
1000 whites walk out of Gary Indiana schools to protest integration
18 Sep 1947
US Air Force created as a separate military service by passing of the National Security Act
18 Sep 1948
Hilarities (of 1949) closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 performances
18 Sep 1948
Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (MusoSjarifudin)
18 Sep 1949
Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
18 Sep 1950
Nakagawa Soen Zen teacher receives dharma transmission
18 Sep 1954
Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant beat Tigers (3-2)
18 Sep 1954
KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
18 Sep 1954
WLOS TV channel 13 in Gville-Spartanburg SC (ABC) 1st broadcast
18 Sep 1958
The Fresno Drop Bank of America mails out 60000 BankAmericards in Fresco California the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
18 Sep 1962
Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
18 Sep 1962
Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth
18 Sep 1962
Rwanda Burundi Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
18 Sep 1963
Final game at Polo Grounds 1752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
18 Sep 1963
USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
18 Sep 1965
Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium Mantle play his 2000th game
18 Sep 1967
Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories Canada
18 Sep 1967
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st Americas Cup
18 Sep 1971
Ryder Cup Golf Old Warson CC US beats Europe 18-13 after leading by 1 match GB loses all Friday morning 4-ball matches to lose momentum
18 Sep 1972
1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
18 Sep 1974
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds 5000 die
18 Sep 1975
Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
18 Sep 1976
Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
18 Sep 1976
Dom Mintoffs Labour Party wins Malta election
18 Sep 1976
Rev Sun Myung Moon holds God Bless America convention
18 Sep 1977
Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th Americas Cup
18 Sep 1977
US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
18 Sep 1979
Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
18 Sep 1979
Steven Lachs appointed as Californias first openly gay judge
18 Sep 1979
The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
18 Sep 1980
Les Miserables opens at Palais des Sports Paris
18 Sep 1980
Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
18 Sep 1980
Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
18 Sep 1981
Assemble Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
18 Sep 1982
Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel
18 Sep 1982
7th Toronto International Film Festival Tempest directed by Paul Mazursky wins the Peoples Choice Award
18 Sep 1983
George Meegen completes 2426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
18 Sep 1983
New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory beating Chicago Bears 34-31
18 Sep 1983
Kiss first unmasked (no make up) appearance on MTV
18 Sep 1983
Action series Hardcastle and McCormick premieres on ABC in the US
18 Sep 1984
Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
18 Sep 1984
Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
18 Sep 1985
Song & Dance opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
18 Sep 1985
BBC Radio reports prime 2216091-1 found in Houston
18 Sep 1985
The Equalizer TV spycrime drama debuts in the US on CBS (starring Edward Woodward)
18 Sep 1986
David Boons 3rd Test cricket century 122 v India at Madras
18 Sep 1987
Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
18 Sep 1988
Coup in Haiti General Prosper Avril takes control Henri Namphy flees
18 Sep 1989
Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
18 Sep 1987
US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles
18 Sep 1990
500 lb 6 Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square NYC
18 Sep 1990
Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
18 Sep 1990
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
18 Sep 1990
Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
18 Sep 1991
American Major League Baseball executive John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
18 Sep 1991
NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
18 Sep 1991
Robert Helmick resigns as president of US Olympic Committee
18 Sep 1991
Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
18 Sep 1993
Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC) 18 crowned 67th Miss America 1994
18 Sep 1993
LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
18 Sep 1993
Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out gets a 2nd chance & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
18 Sep 1993
18th Toronto International Film Festival The Snapper directed by Stephen Frears wins the Peoples Choice Award
18 Sep 1994
1st Presidents Cup Golf Robert Trent Jones GC US beats International team 20-12
18 Sep 1994
Austrian conservative FVP wins election extreme right gets 18.5%
18 Sep 1994
Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
18 Sep 1995
Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
18 Sep 1997
Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
18 Sep 1998
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed.
18 Sep 1999
24th Toronto International Film Festival American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes wins the Peoples Choice Award
18 Sep 2001
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton New Jersey in the anthrax attacks.
18 Sep 2003
The United Kingdoms Local Government Act repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 receives Royal Assent
18 Sep 1838
Anti-Corn Law League established in Great Britain by Richard Cobden
18 Sep 1895
Daniel David Palmer of Davenport Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
18 Sep 1919
Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drowns 280 along Gulf Coast
18 Sep 1928
St. Louis beat Phillies 4-2 at the Baker Bowl Philadelphia 20th Cards win of 22 starts between the 2 clubs in
18 Sep 1930
NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns 7-6 at Sportsmans Park St. Louis
18 Sep 1938
Despite losing a double header (4-3 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsmans Park III the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
18 Sep 1942
The order for extermination of asocials through labour is approved by Nazi Minister of Justice Otto Thierack
18 Sep 1944
Eindhoven freed by American and British trrops (Lightly Day)
18 Sep 1950
Nakagawa Soen Japanese Zen teacher receives dharma transmission
18 Sep 1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and starring Michael Rennie opens
18 Sep 1963
Final game at Polo Grounds New York City 1752 see Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets 5-1
18 Sep 1969
American singer Tiny Tim (37) & Victoria Miss Vicki Budinger(17) get engaged
18 Sep 1972
1st black NL umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs San Diego
18 Sep 1987
Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run 30 off Bill Wegman in 5th inning of Tigers 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers first 40 year old to hit 30 MLB HRs in a season
18 Sep 1988
Magna Charta Universitatum signed to celebrate university traditions and mark 900th anniversary of the founding of Bologna University the oldest in the world
18 Sep 1991
NCAA places Tennessee on 2 years probation for football recruiting violations
18 Sep 1997
Controversial art exhibition Sensation featuring works by Young British Artists from the collection of Charles Saatchi opens at the Royal Academy in London
18 Sep 1915
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P. G. Wodehouse short story Extricating Young Gussie published in The Saturday Evening Post in the US
18 Sep 1928
San Felipe SegundoOkeechobee hurricane makes fifth and final landfall near Edisto Island South Carolina as category 1 storm total impact of event - over 4100 killed and 100M (1.6B in 2020) in damage
18 Sep 1963
Final MLB game at Polo Grounds New York City 1752 see Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets 5-1
18 Sep 1974
Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds about 5000 die
18 Sep 1995
Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns there from Cleveland
18 Sep 1739
Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty - Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
18 Sep 1944
WWII British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru 5600 killed including 1377 allied POWs and 4200 Javanese slave laborers
18 Sep 1944
WWII Eindhoven Netherlands freed by American and British troops (Lightly Day)
18 Sep 1944
WWII US 266th division defeats German troops at Brest Bretagne in Brittany France after a 7 week siege 37000 prisoners taken ports rendered useless
18 Sep 1967
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st Americas Cup yacht race at Newport Rhode Island
18 Sep 1976
Rev Sun Myung Moon holds God Bless America convention at Yankee Stadium in New York City
18 Sep 1978
WKRP in Cincinnati an ensemble TV sitcom created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts on CBS
18 Sep 1985
TV spycrime drama The Equalizer starring Edward Woodward debuts in the US on CBS
18 Sep 1454
Battle of Chojnice The Teutonic army heavily defeats a Polish army led by King Casimir IV during the Thirteen Years War in northwestern Poland
18 Sep 1872
Oscar II Fredrik accedes to the throne of the Union between Sweden and Norway
18 Sep 1897
Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martins musical Belle of New York City premieres in NYC
18 Sep 1931
The Mudken Incident To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria China a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
18 Sep 1965
Mickey Mantle Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium as Mantle plays his 2000th game
18 Sep 1967
Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of Northwest Territories Canada
18 Sep 1979
Briitish rock band The Who plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden NYC
18 Sep 1980
Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzners musical Les Misrables premieres at Palais des Sports Paris
18 Sep 1984
Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
18 Sep 1987
Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run 30 off Bill Wegman in 5th inning of Tigers 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers first 40-year-old to hit 30 MLB HRs in a season
18 Sep 1997
Ted Turner gives 1 billion to the United Nations creating the public charity the United Nations Foundation
18 Sep 2006
Watching You single released by Rodney Atkins (Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
18 Sep 2006
Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest Hungary one day after an audio tape was made public in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsny admitted he and his party lied during the general elections.
18 Sep 2007
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar starting what some called the Saffron Revolution
18 Sep 1739
Turkey and Austria sign a peace treaty Austria cedes Belgrade to Turkey
18 Sep 1769
John Harris of Boston Massachusetts builds the first spinet piano
18 Sep 1789
First loan is raised to pay the salaries of the US President and Congress
18 Sep 1810
Chile declares independence from Spain celebrated today as Chiles National Day
18 Sep 1842
First edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is published
18 Sep 1848
Baseball rules allow the first baseman to tag the base for an out instead of tagging the runner
18 Sep 1851
First edition of The New York Times is published for 2 cents a copy [1]
18 Sep 1864
Hoods Tennessee Campaign begins (also called the FranklinNashville Campaign) in the American Civil War
18 Sep 1873
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of and the Long Depression
18 Sep 1882
Pacific Stock Exchange opens as Local Security Board
18 Sep 1885
Riots break out in Montreal Canada to protest against mandatory smallpox vaccinations
18 Sep 1891
The Seneca tribe gives Harriet Maxwell Converse an honorary position as chief making her the first white woman to become a Native American chief
18 Sep 1895
Daniel David Palmer of Davenport Iowa performs the first chiropractic adjustment on partially deaf Harvey Lillard restoring his hearing
18 Sep 1897
Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martins musical Belle of New York City premieres in New York City
18 Sep 1903
Phillies Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs 10-0
18 Sep 1908
Cleveland Indian Bob Dusty Rhoades no-hits Boston 2-1
18 Sep 1909
Largest paid baseball attendance (35409) As beat Tigers 2-0 in Detroit
18 Sep 1910
25000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male and female suffrage
18 Sep 1911
Britains first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) is test-flown
18 Sep 1914
South African troops land in German South-West Africa
18 Sep 1919
Hurricane tides reach 16 feet above normal drowning 280 people along US Gulf Coast
18 Sep 1922
Browns George Sislers 41-game hit streak is stopped by New Yorks Joe Bush
18 Sep 1922
Second government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
18 Sep 1927
Columbia Broadcasting System goes on air with 18 stations and WOR as the New York City affiliate
18 Sep 1928
Juan de la Cierva flies an autogiro a predecessor to the helicopter across the English Channel
18 Sep 1928
San Felipe SegundoOkeechobee hurricane makes its fifth and final landfall near Edisto Island South Carolina as a Category 1 storm the total impact of the event is over 4100 killed and 100 million (1.6 billion in 2020) in damage
18 Sep 1928
St. Louis beats the Phillies 4-2 at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia 20th Cardinals win of 22 starts between the two clubs in
18 Sep 1929
Pirates lose to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
18 Sep 1929
Preston Sturges Strictly Dishonorable premieres in New York City
18 Sep 1930
Philadelphia As win AL Championship for the second year in a row
18 Sep 1931
Mukden Incident To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria China the Japanese detonate a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japans South Manchuria Railway
18 Sep 1934
St. Louis Browns Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10 innings 2-1
18 Sep 1938
Despite losing a doubleheader (4-3 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsmans Park III the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
18 Sep 1938
The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 2-0
18 Sep 1940
Elmer Harris Johnny Belinda premieres in New York City
18 Sep 1943
German occupiers liquidate the ghetto of Lida Belarus transporting the last remaining Jews to their murder at the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor
18 Sep 1944
WWII Eindhoven Netherlands is freed by American and British troops (Liberation Day)
18 Sep 1944
WWII US 266th division defeats German troops at Brest Bretagne in Brittany France after a seven-week siege 37000 prisoners taken ports rendered useless
18 Sep 1947
US Air Force is created as a separate military service with the passing of the National Security Act
18 Sep 1947
US Department of Defense first day of operation
18 Sep 1948
Communist Madiun Uprising in Dutch Indies (MusoSjarifudin)
18 Sep 1949
Baseball Major League record of four grand slams hit
18 Sep 1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still a science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and starring Michael Rennie premieres
18 Sep 1954
Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant beating Tigers (3-2)
18 Sep 1954
WLOS TV Channel 13 in Gville-Spartanburg SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
18 Sep 1958
The Fresno Drop Bank of America mails out 60000 BankAmericards in Fresno California the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
18 Sep 1962
Bob Aspromonte sets a National League third baseman record of 57 consecutive errorless games
18 Sep 1962
Charlie Finley is denied permission to move the As to Dallas-Fort Worth
18 Sep 1962
Rwanda Burundi Jamaica and Trinidad are admitted to the United Nations as the 105th through 108th member countries
18 Sep 1963
Final MLB game at Polo Grounds New York City 1752 see the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the New York Mets 5-1
18 Sep 1965
Mickey Mantle Day takes place at Yankee Stadium to honor Micky Mantles 2000th game
18 Sep 1967
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in the 21st Americas Cup yacht race at Newport Rhode Island
18 Sep 1967
Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as the capital of the Northwest Territories Canada
18 Sep 1968
Ray Washburn (Cardinals) no-hits the SF Giants 2-0
18 Sep 1972
First Black National League umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs. San Diego
18 Sep 1973
The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic are admitted to the UN
18 Sep 1974
Hurricane Fifi hits the coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds killing about 5000 people
18 Sep 1976
Dom Mintoffs Labour Party wins the Malta elections
18 Sep 1977
Voyager I takes the first space photograph of Earth and Moon together
18 Sep 1978
WKRP in Cincinnati an ensemble TV sitcom created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts on CBS
18 Sep 1978
All four Kiss members release solo albums on the same day
18 Sep 1979
Briitish rock band The Who plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden New York City
18 Sep 1979
Steven Lachs is appointed as Californias first openly gay judge
18 Sep 1980
Royals Willie Wilson steals an AL-record 28 consecutive bases
18 Sep 1980
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts including one Cuban to the Salyut 6 space station
18 Sep 1982
Sabra and Shatila massacres Christian militia massacres at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for the assassination of Bachir Gemayel
18 Sep 1983
George Meegan completes his walk across the Western Hemisphere covering 19019 miles (30608 km) in 2426 days
18 Sep 1983
Kisss first unmasked (no make up) appearance on MTV a significant departure from their decade-long iconic makeup
18 Sep 1983
New Orleans Saints achieve their first overtime victory defeating the Chicago Bears 34-31
18 Sep 1984
Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic
18 Sep 1984
Tigers clinch the AL East championship after spending the entire year in first place
18 Sep 1984
Tim Raines is the first player with four consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
18 Sep 1985
Computer scientists accidentally stumble upon the largest prime number ever discovered the number 2216091 - 1 containing 65050 digits
18 Sep 1985
TV spycrime drama The Equalizer starring Edward Woodward debuts in the US on CBS
18 Sep 1987
Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run 30 off Bill Wegman in the 5th inning of the Tigers 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers becoming the first 40-year-old to hit 30 MLB home runs in a season
18 Sep 1987
US and USSR sign accord to remove mid-range missiles
18 Sep 1988
Coup in Haiti General Prosper Avril takes control and Henri Namphy flees
18 Sep 1988
Magna Charta Universitatum is signed to celebrate university traditions and the 900th anniversary of the founding of the University of Bologna the oldest in the world
18 Sep 1990
A 500-pound 6-foot Hersheys Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square New York City
18 Sep 1990
Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
18 Sep 1990
Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
18 Sep 1991
Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities
18 Sep 1993
Trailing 3-1 with two outs in the ninth time is called prior to Mike Stanleys pop-out giving him a second chance and the Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3
18 Sep 1993
The LA Mighty Ducks play their first NHL pre-season game against the Penguins
18 Sep 1994
Swedens Social Democratic Party wins the parliamentary election
18 Sep 1994
The Austrian Peoples Party wins election extreme right receives 18.5%
18 Sep 1995
Art Modell first meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move the Browns there from Cleveland
18 Sep 1997
CNN founder Ted Turner donates 1 billion to the United Nations creating the public charity the United Nations Foundation
18 Sep 1997
Controversial art exhibition Sensation featuring works by Young British Artists from the collection of Charles Saatchi opens at the Royal Academy in London
18 Sep 2001
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton New Jersey in the anthrax attacks
18 Sep 2006
Right-wing protesters riot at the building of Hungarian Television in Budapest Hungary one day after an audio tape is made public in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsny admits he and his party lied during the general election
18 Sep 2007
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar starting what some call the Saffron Revolution
18 Sep 2009
Final episode of soap opera Guiding Light is broadcast ending a 72-year run on radio and television
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