A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 18 throughout history.
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British East India Company force led by Baron Minto conquers Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies. Stamford Raffles is appointed lieutenant-governor.
The United States has been attacked several times throughout its history, including attacks on its states and territories, embassies and consulates, and its military.
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression
Irish Home Rule Bill receives Royal Assent
Mukden Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Chinese Manchuria, Japanese forces detonate a small quantity of dynamite near a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and...
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, writer, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China.
"A Streetcar Named Desire," a film directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theatre, NYC
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site.
Mickey Mantle Day takes place at Yankee Stadium to honor Mickey Mantle's 2,000th game
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie
Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory
Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London
Actor Rod Taylor (39) divorces model Mary Hilem after 5 years of marriage
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
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
The Transylvanian peasant revolt (Hungarian: erdélyi parasztfelkelés), also known as the Bábolna revolt (Romanian: Răscoala de la Bobâlna) was a popular revolt in the eastern territories of the...
Battle of Chojnice: The Teutonic army heavily defeats a Polish army led by King Casimir IV during the Thirteen Years' War in northwestern Poland
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several...
The Treaty of Belgrade, also known as the Belgrade Peace, was a peace treaty between the Habsburg Monarchy and Ottoman Empire, that was signed on September 18, 1739, in Belgrade (modern Serbia), thus...
Fort Ticonderoga (), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York.
Quebec (French: Québec) is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, it is the only Francophone-majority province in the country, being home to Québécois French.
John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds the first spinet piano
First loan is raised to pay the salaries of the US President and Congress
The Fiestas Patrias (literally Homeland Holidays) of Chile consist of two days, with a third one added on some years: 18 September, in commemoration of the proclamation of the First Governing Body of...
The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected national farming interests by levying taxes on...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Baseball rules allow the first baseman to tag the base for an out instead of tagging the runner
De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns
The New-York Daily Times was established in 1851 by New-York Tribune journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
The Battle of Lynchburg was fought on June 17–18, 1864, as part of the American Civil War. Over 30,000 soldiers were at the battle, including cavalry and infantry.
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival that started on 18 September 1879, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire. Also known...
Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
Pacific Stock Exchange opens as Local Security Board
Riots break out in Montreal, Canada, to protest against mandatory smallpox vaccinations
The Seneca tribe gives Harriet Maxwell Converse an honorary position as chief, making her the first white woman to become a Native American chief
Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City" premieres in New York City
The 1903 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 49–86, 39+1⁄2 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston 2-1
Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers 2-0 in Detroit
25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male and female suffrage
Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) is test-flown
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government.
Browns' George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush
Government routes seven provinces to Peking
Hurricane hits Miami, killing 250 people
Columbia Broadcasting System goes on air with 18 stations and WOR as the New York City affiliate
Juan de la Cierva flies an autogiro, a predecessor to the helicopter, across the English Channel
Pirates lose to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup
NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns 7-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
St. Louis Browns' Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10 innings, 2-1
The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar
Despite losing a doubleheader (4-3, 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park III, the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England) was an effort by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF)...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
WWII: British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave laborers
whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
Communist Madiun Uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
The 1949 major league baseball season began on April 18, 1949. The regular season ended on October 2, with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National...
Nakagawa Soen, Japanese Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beating Tigers (3-2)
Willie Mays ties Joe Adcock's record with his 9th career home run at Ebbets Field
Mickey Mantle is the eighth player to hit 50 home runs in a season
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresno, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
Vanguard 3 (Harvard designation: 1959 Eta 1) is a scientific satellite that was launched into Earth orbit by the Vanguard SLV-7 on 18 September 1959, the third successful Vanguard launch out of...
Bob Aspromonte sets a National League third baseman record of 57 consecutive errorless games
The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 to 1963.
Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas throws four touchdown passes in a 38-23 win at Minnesota to surpass Y. A. Tittle as the NFL's career leader with 212 and finishes his career with 290 TD passes
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in the 21st America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island
First Black National League umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs. San Diego
The relationship of Germany and the United Nations first began during World War II.
The 1974 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly hurricane season. In terms of overall activity, it was near average, with eleven named storms forming, of which four became hurricanes.
Frank Robinson (August 31, 1935 – February 7, 2019), nicknamed "the Judge", was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for five teams over...
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson.
Briitish rock band "The Who" plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York City
Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzner's musical "Les Misérables" premieres at Palais des Sports, Paris
Capital punishment in France (French: peine de mort en France) is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional amendment by the Congress of the French...
Sabra and Shatila massacres: Christian militia massacres at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for the assassination of Bachir Gemayel
Action series "Hardcastle and McCormick" premieres on ABC in the US
Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force.
Timothy Raines Sr., nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
Computer scientists accidentally stumble upon the largest prime number ever discovered, the number 2^216091 - 1, containing 65,050 digits
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
Burma suspends its constitution
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City
Mark Shapiro is an American baseball executive, and president and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).
The LA Mighty Ducks play their first NHL pre-season game against the Penguins
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B.
William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably with the Boston Red Sox and New York...
CNN founder Ted Turner donates $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity the United Nations Foundation
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on...
The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent
"Watching You" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Atkins.
The Saffron Revolution was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in Myanmar.
Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American daytime soap opera.
World Bamboo Organization celebrates the first World Bamboo Day to raise awareness about bamboo's contributions to sustainability [1]
10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs
Earliest known fishhooks, 23,000 years old, discovered on Okinawa Island, Japan; findings published in PNAS journal
England footballer Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drunk driving and is banned from driving for 2 years
Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
Cyclone Ianos, a rare "medicane," begins sweeping across Greece, killing three
US authorities begin moving to repatriate more than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas
Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Punta Tocón on Puerto Rico's southwest coast as a Category 1 storm with 85 km/h winds, causing catastrophic flooding [1]
America and Iran swap five prisoners each in an agreement that also allows the release of $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue [1]
Portugal declares "a state of calamity" over wildfires in its central and northern areas, destroying part of Passadiços do Paiva, famous wooden footbridges within UNESCO Arouca Geopark [1]
British radio presenter Pete Murray returns to the air to commemorate his 100th birthday [1]
Samuel Johnson writer and lexicographer, known for english writer and lexicographer, was born on 1709-09-18. Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S.
John Diefenbaker is born
James Gandolfini, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1961-09-18. James John Gandolfini was an American actor.
Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1972-09-18. Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, businesswoman, and talk show host.
Ryne Sandberg, American athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1959-09-18.
Scotty Bowman, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey coach, was born on 1934-09-18. William Scott Bowman is a Canadian former professional ice hockey head coach.
Darryl Sittler, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1951-09-18.
Peter Šťastný, Canadian athlete, known for slovak-canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1957-09-18.
Lance Armstrong, American athlete, known for american cyclist, was born on 1972-09-18.
Ronaldo is born
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
The Transylvanian peasant revolt (Hungarian: erdélyi parasztfelkelés), also known as the Bábolna revolt (Romanian: Răscoala de la Bobâlna) was a popular revolt in the eastern territories of the...
Battle of Chojnice: The Teutonic army heavily defeats a Polish army led by King Casimir IV during the Thirteen Years' War in northwestern Poland
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several...
Samuel Johnson writer and lexicographer, known for english writer and lexicographer, was born on 1709-09-18. Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S.
The Treaty of Belgrade, also known as the Belgrade Peace, was a peace treaty between the Habsburg Monarchy and Ottoman Empire, that was signed on September 18, 1739, in Belgrade (modern Serbia), thus...
Fort Ticonderoga (), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York.
Quebec (French: Québec) is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, it is the only Francophone-majority province in the country, being home to Québécois French.
John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds the first spinet piano
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, known for swiss mathematician, died on 1783-09-18.
First loan is raised to pay the salaries of the US President and Congress
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site.
The Fiestas Patrias (literally Homeland Holidays) of Chile consist of two days, with a third one added on some years: 18 September, in commemoration of the proclamation of the First Governing Body of...
British East India Company force led by Baron Minto conquers Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies. Stamford Raffles is appointed lieutenant-governor.
The United States has been attacked several times throughout its history, including attacks on its states and territories, embassies and consulates, and its military.
The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected national farming interests by levying taxes on...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Baseball rules allow the first baseman to tag the base for an out instead of tagging the runner
De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns
The New-York Daily Times was established in 1851 by New-York Tribune journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
The Battle of Lynchburg was fought on June 17–18, 1864, as part of the American Civil War. Over 30,000 soldiers were at the battle, including cavalry and infantry.
Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street and the start of the Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival that started on 18 September 1879, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire. Also known...
Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
Pacific Stock Exchange opens as Local Security Board
Riots break out in Montreal, Canada, to protest against mandatory smallpox vaccinations
The Seneca tribe gives Harriet Maxwell Converse an honorary position as chief, making her the first white woman to become a Native American chief
John Diefenbaker is born
Gustave Kecker and Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City" premieres in New York City
The 1903 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 49–86, 39+1⁄2 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie
Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston 2-1
Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers 2-0 in Detroit
25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male and female suffrage
Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) is test-flown
Irish Home Rule Bill receives Royal Assent
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government.
Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory
Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London
Browns' George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush
Government routes seven provinces to Peking
Hurricane hits Miami, killing 250 people
Columbia Broadcasting System goes on air with 18 stations and WOR as the New York City affiliate
Juan de la Cierva flies an autogiro, a predecessor to the helicopter, across the English Channel
Pirates lose to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup
NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns 7-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
Mukden Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Chinese Manchuria, Japanese forces detonate a small quantity of dynamite near a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway
St. Louis Browns' Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10 innings, 2-1
Scotty Bowman, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey coach, was born on 1934-09-18. William Scott Bowman is a Canadian former professional ice hockey head coach.
The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar
Despite losing a doubleheader (4-3, 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park III, the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England) was an effort by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during the summer and autumn of 1940 to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF)...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
WWII: British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave laborers
whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and...
Communist Madiun Uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
The 1949 major league baseball season began on April 18, 1949. The regular season ended on October 2, with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National...
Nakagawa Soen, Japanese Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
"A Streetcar Named Desire," a film directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, premieres at the Warner Theatre, NYC
Darryl Sittler, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1951-09-18.
Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beating Tigers (3-2)
Willie Mays ties Joe Adcock's record with his 9th career home run at Ebbets Field
Mickey Mantle is the eighth player to hit 50 home runs in a season
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Peter Šťastný, Canadian athlete, known for slovak-canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1957-09-18.
The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresno, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
Vanguard 3 (Harvard designation: 1959 Eta 1) is a scientific satellite that was launched into Earth orbit by the Vanguard SLV-7 on 18 September 1959, the third successful Vanguard launch out of...
Ryne Sandberg, American athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1959-09-18.
James Gandolfini, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1961-09-18. James John Gandolfini was an American actor.
Bob Aspromonte sets a National League third baseman record of 57 consecutive errorless games
The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 to 1963.
Mickey Mantle Day takes place at Yankee Stadium to honor Mickey Mantle's 2,000th game
Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas throws four touchdown passes in a 38-23 win at Minnesota to surpass Y. A. Tittle as the NFL's career leader with 212 and finishes his career with 290 TD passes
Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in the 21st America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island
Actor Rod Taylor (39) divorces model Mary Hilem after 5 years of marriage
Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist, known for american guitarist, died on 1970-09-18. James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
First Black National League umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs. San Diego
Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1972-09-18. Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, businesswoman, and talk show host.
Lance Armstrong, American athlete, known for american cyclist, was born on 1972-09-18.
The relationship of Germany and the United Nations first began during World War II.
The 1974 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly hurricane season. In terms of overall activity, it was near average, with eleven named storms forming, of which four became hurricanes.
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, writer, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China.
Frank Robinson (August 31, 1935 – February 7, 2019), nicknamed "the Judge", was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for five teams over...
Ronaldo is born
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson.
Briitish rock band "The Who" plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York City
Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzner's musical "Les Misérables" premieres at Palais des Sports, Paris
Capital punishment in France (French: peine de mort en France) is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional amendment by the Congress of the French...
Sabra and Shatila massacres: Christian militia massacres at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for the assassination of Bachir Gemayel
Action series "Hardcastle and McCormick" premieres on ABC in the US
Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force.
Timothy Raines Sr., nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
Computer scientists accidentally stumble upon the largest prime number ever discovered, the number 2^216091 - 1, containing 65,050 digits
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
Burma suspends its constitution
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City
Mark Shapiro is an American baseball executive, and president and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).
The LA Mighty Ducks play their first NHL pre-season game against the Penguins
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B.
William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably with the Boston Red Sox and New York...
CNN founder Ted Turner donates $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity the United Nations Foundation
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on...
The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent
"Watching You" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Atkins.
The Saffron Revolution was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in Myanmar.
Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American daytime soap opera.
World Bamboo Organization celebrates the first World Bamboo Day to raise awareness about bamboo's contributions to sustainability [1]
10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs
Earliest known fishhooks, 23,000 years old, discovered on Okinawa Island, Japan; findings published in PNAS journal
England footballer Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drunk driving and is banned from driving for 2 years
Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
Cyclone Ianos, a rare "medicane," begins sweeping across Greece, killing three
US authorities begin moving to repatriate more than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas
Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Punta Tocón on Puerto Rico's southwest coast as a Category 1 storm with 85 km/h winds, causing catastrophic flooding [1]
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
America and Iran swap five prisoners each in an agreement that also allows the release of $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue [1]
Portugal declares "a state of calamity" over wildfires in its central and northern areas, destroying part of Passadiços do Paiva, famous wooden footbridges within UNESCO Arouca Geopark [1]
British radio presenter Pete Murray returns to the air to commemorate his 100th birthday [1]