History Events on September 18

The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

#Mukden_Incident

CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

#CONCACAF

The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.

#Fire_of_Moscow_(1812)

Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.

#Vanguard_3

The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

#Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850

Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.

#Saffron_Revolution

Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.

#Constantine_the_Great

The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

#Atlanta_Exposition_Speech

World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mo?cicki flees to Romania.

#World_War_II

The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

#The_Bahamas

An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.

#Giant_Mine

The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.

#Fashoda_Incident

The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.

#2011_Sikkim_earthquake

Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.

#2014_Scottish_independence_referendum

World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'y? Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.

#HMS_Tradewind_(P329)

Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

#Juan_de_la_Cierva

The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.

#Government_of_Ireland_Act_1914

The 2016 Uri attack in Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.

#2016_Uri_attack

The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

#Women's_suffrage

George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.

#George_I_of_Great_Britain

The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

#Jay_Cooke_&_Company

The Royal Opera House in London opens.

#Royal_Opera_House

U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

#Dag_Hammarskjöld

Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.

#Greater_Manchester_Police

General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.

#Douglas_MacArthur

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.

#2015_Camp_Badaber_attack

French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.

#French_and_Indian_War

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

#History_of_the_Jews_in_Denmark

The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

#Richard_Cobden

First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.

#Government_Junta_of_Chile_(1810)

Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.

#Battle_of_Kapetron

Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

#Fritz_Pollard

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

#Burundi

The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.

#Treaty_of_Belgrade

Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

#Fidel_Castro

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

#Margaret_Chase_Smith

The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.

#Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States by the National Security Act. It also establishes the Air Force as an equal partner of the Army and Navy.

#Central_Intelligence_Agency

Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

#Liechtenstein

First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

#Anthrax

Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.

#Nerva

United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

#Ted_Turner

The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.

#United_States_Capitol

The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.

#Soviet_Union

Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.

#Soyuz_38

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

#Ottawa_Treaty

Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.

#Harald_Hardrada

The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.

#1906_Hong_Kong_typhoon

Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.

#Pyotr_Stolypin

The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

#Blackpool_Illuminations

The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.

Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.

Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.

Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.

World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.

World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.

The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.

The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.

The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".

The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.

Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights.

Philip Augustus becomes king of France.