September 18 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 18. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 83 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1914The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- 1914World War I: South African troops land in German South-West Africa.
- 1919The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- 1919Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
- 1922Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 1927The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
- 1928Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
- 1931The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- 1934The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 1939World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
- 1939The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
- 1940The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
- 1943World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
- 1943World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- 1944World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
- 1945General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
- 1947The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- 1947The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
- 1948Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
- 1948Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
- 1948Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
- 1959Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
- 1960Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
- 1961U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1961The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
- 1962Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1964Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
- 1964North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
- 1973The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1974Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
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