What are the important events that happened on September 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 18 is the 261st day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 5, 2017 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 418,248 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontahenagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 154 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,732 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 18 Historical Events
- 1895 –Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
- 1898 –Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener’s ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
- 1906 –A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
- 1910 –In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
- 1922 –Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
- 1939 –The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- 1945 –General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
- 1977 –Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
- 1988 –End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
- 1998 –ICANN is formed.
Who were born on September 18?
- 1786 –Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
- 1872 –Carl Friedberg, German pianist (d. 1955)
- 1933 –Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, Russian bass-baritone
- 1933 –Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1944 –Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
- 1946 –Benjamin Brea, Venezuelan woodwind player, music teacher and arranger
- 1948 –Christopher Skase, Australian fugitive businessman (d. 2001)
- 1949 –Jim McCrery, American politician
- 1951 –Tony Scott, American baseball player
- 1977 –Kieran West, British oarsman
Who died on September 18?
- 96 –Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
- 1180 –King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
- 1909 –Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (b. 1850)
- 1911 –Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
- 1958 –Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist, illustrator (b. 1873)
- 1967 –John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1970 –Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
- 1987 –Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
- 1998 –Charlie Foxx, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2002 –Margita Stefanovic, Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika. (b. 1959)
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