Historical Events on September 18 (Part 2)

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• 2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

• 2012 10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
• 2012 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
• 2012 The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
• 2012 World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
• 2014 8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida

• 2014 Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum
• 2015 Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs
• 2016 Earliest known fishooks at 23,000 years old discovered on Okinawa Island, Japan, findings published in PNAS journal
• 2016 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her 2nd major title by 4 strokes from Ryu So-yeon & Park Sung-hyun; 21-under-par score a record for all women's majors

• 2017 Hurricane Maria passes over the Caribbean island of Dominica as a category 5 hurricane, destroying 90% of structures and killing 27

• 2018 Amnesty International says 400 civilians have been killed in conflicts between Cameroon soldiers and Anglophone separatists in 2018
• 2018 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
• 2018 South Africa's Constitutional court legalizes cannabis use by adults in private places
• 2019 Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
• 2019 Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes

• 2019 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says Iran was to blame for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities

• 2019 US White House bars California and other states from setting their own emission standards
• 2020 Cyclone Ianos, a rare 'medicane' begins sweeping across Greece, killing three
• 2020 Earliest dated evidence for the human species in the Arabian Peninsula as fossilized footprints 120,000 years old uncovered in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert [1]
• 2021 US authorities begin moving, to repatriate, more than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas
• 2022 Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Punta Tocon on Puerto Rico's southwest coast as a Category 1 storm with 85km winds causing catastrophic flooding [1]
• 2022 Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Taiwan’s southeastern coast, north of Taitung [1]
• 2022 Typhoon Nanmadol, one of the biggest to ever strike Japan, makes landfall on Kyushu island, with winds of 180 km/h (112mph), forcing four million people to evacuate [1]

• 2023 1 in 10 Japanese is now over the age of 80, with 29.1% over 65 according to new government figures [1]
• 2023 America and Iran swap five prisoners each in an agreement, that also allowed release of $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue [1]
• 2023 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says “agents of the Indian government” carried out killing of a Sikh community leader, who advocated for Sikh separatism, in British Columbia in June [1]
• 2023 Fashion journalist Chioma Nnadi named new head of British Vogue - first black woman to head a major fashion magazine

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