Major Events
- 1811 British East India Company force led by Baron Minto conquers Java, part of the Dutch East Indies, Stamford Raffles appointed lieutenant governor
- 1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
- 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
- 1914 Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
- 1931 The Mudken Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
- 1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July
- 1976 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing, China
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Sep 18 in Film & TV
- 1951 "A Streetcar Named Desire", film directed by Elia Kazan based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theater, NYC
Sep 18 in Music
- 1809 Royal Opera House in London opens
Sep 18 in Sport
- 1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
Did You Know?
US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Trajan
Samuel Johnson
John Diefenbaker
Greta Garbo
James Gandolfini
Jada Pinkett Smith
Ken Brett
Scotty Bowman
Darryl Sittler
Ryne Sandberg
Lance Armstrong
Ronaldo
Fun Fact About September 18
Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs
Famous Weddings
- 1907 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie
- 1920 Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory
- 1922 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London
Famous Divorces
- 1969 Actor Rod Taylor (39) divorces model Mary Hilem after 5 years of marriage
- 2023 American actress Bijou Phillips (43) files for divorce from American "That '70s Show" actor and convicted rapist Danny Masterson (47) after 11 years of marriage
- 2023 American pop singer Ariana Grande (30) files for divorce from American realtor Dalton Gomez (27) after two years of marriage [1]
More September 18 Weddings
Domitian
Leonhard Euler
Dag Hammarskjöld
Jimi Hendrix
Ken Norton
Ruth Bader GinsburgArticles, Photos and Quiz
Great Fire of Moscow
Napoleon retreats from Moscow as it burns, in a painting by Viktor Mazurovsky
September 18, 1812
Arc Lamps Light the Way to World-Beating Display
"Artificial sunshine" came to a Northern England holiday resort in 1879, dazzling the visitors and showing the world the possibilities of outside electricity.
September 18, 1879
