What Happened on September 18th in History
30 historical events on this date
The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark takes place in Athens.
The wedding of Constantine II, King of the Hellenes, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place on Friday, 18 September 1964, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.
The Addams Family is an American Gothic sitcom based on Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons. With an ensemble cast, the 30-minute television series took the unnamed characters in the single-panel...
Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart premieres on NBC Television.
Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful...
The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic country in the Caribbean located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The country comprises 700 islands,...
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
Hurricane Fifi, later known as Hurricane Orlene, was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed over 8,000 people in Honduras in September 1974, ranking it as the third deadliest Atlantic hurricane...
Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program, to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was...
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
Soyuz 38 was a human spaceflight mission conducted by the Soviet Union during September 1980. The Soyuz spacecraft brought two visiting crew members to the Salyut 6 space station, one of whom was an...
A fuel leak from a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at a USAF base near Damascus, Arkansas, results in an explosion in a missile silo, killing one person and injuring 21 others.
The Titan II was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company from the earlier Titan I missile. Titan II was originally designed and used as an ICBM, but was...
The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés or...
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
Joseph William Kittinger II was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force. He served from 1950 to 1978 and earned Command Pilot status before retiring with the...
The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
The 8888 Uprising, also known as the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma that peaked in August 1988. Key events occurred on 8 August 1988 and therefore it...
General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
Henri Namphy was a Haitian general and political figure who served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 February 1988. He served...
The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rectors of 388 institutions of higher learning, to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna.
The Magna Charta Universitatum is a two-page document produced by the University of Bologna and the European Rectors' Conference in 1988 in Bologna, Italy. It identifies key principles that are...
An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled.
The 1989 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt was allegedly an attempt at a military coup d'état, planned by Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani and Henri Zongo, in addition to other unnamed conspirators. The...
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a doubly landlocked country in the Central European Alps. A microstate, It is located between Austria to the east and north-east and...
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
The Giant Mine was a gold mine located on the Ingraham Trail, 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Giant Mine was within the Kam Group, a part of the Yellowknife greenstone...
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
Robert Edward Turner III was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, which pioneered the...
The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel...
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis. Infection typically occurs by contact with the skin, inhalation, or intestinal absorption....
The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the merger of UPN and The WB.
The CW Network, LLC is an American commercial broadcast television network which is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through an 81% ownership interest. The network's name is derived from the first...
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
The Saffron Revolution was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in Myanmar. The protests were triggered by the...
After 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television broadcasts the final episode of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in American history.
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, is an American commercial broadcast television network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance. It...
Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel.
Philippe Croizon is a French athlete and the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel and to run the Rally Dakar.
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and was centered within the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, near the border of Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, at 18:10 IST...
A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
Via Rail Canada Inc., operating as Via Rail, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada.
Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014. The referendum question was "Should Scotland be an independent country?", which voters...
Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
The 2015 Camp Badaber attack occurred on 18 September 2015, when 14 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants attempted to storm Camp Badaber, a Pakistan Air Force base located in Badaber, Khyber...
The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
The 2016 Uri attack was carried out on 18 September 2016 by four terrorists from Jaish-e-Mohammed against an Indian Army brigade headquarters near the town of Uri in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. 19...
Toy retail chain Toys "R" Us files for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada.
Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer that was founded in April 1948 by Charles Lazarus in Washington, D.C. The retailer initially began as Children's Supermart,...
Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the Constitutional Court.
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae that is widely accepted as being indigenous to and originating from the continent of Asia. However, the number of species is...