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 262nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 5, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,616 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 ‘dihectahexacontadigon’ day.
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 133 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 4,289 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 18 Historical Events
- 1180 –Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
- 1809 –The Royal Opera House in London opens.
- 1851 –First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
- 1879 –The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- 1939 –World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
- 1943 –World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- 1973 –The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1974 –Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
- 1975 –Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- 1977 –Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Who were born on September 18?
- 1852 –Clement Lindley Wragge, British-born meteorologist (d. 1922)
- 1889 –Sir Leslie Morshead, Australian soldier (d. 1959)
- 1904 –Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
- 1920 –Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1933 –Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
- 1942 –Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer.
- 1952 –Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
- 1957 –Emily Remler, American Jazz Guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1971 –Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
- 1973 –Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
Who died on September 18?
- 1663 –St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
- 1722 –André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
- 1830 –William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
- 1872 –King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
- 1890 –Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (b. c.1820)
- 1931 –Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s niece (b. 1908)
- 1931 –Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c.1806)
- 1952 –Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian operatic soprano (b. 1879)
- 1956 –Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
- 1967 –John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
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