September 18 Historical Events
The following events took place on September 18. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 83 events. Showing 61 - 83.
- 1975Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- 1977Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
- 1980Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
- 1981Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
- 1982Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
- 1984Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
- 1987Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
- 1988End 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.
- 1990Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1991Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of seven Adriatic port cities.
- 1992An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
- 1997United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
- 1997Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
- 1997Al-Qaeda carried out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1998ICANN is formed.
- 2001First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- 2007Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
- 2007Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
- 2009The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
- 2011The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
- 2013Cygnus Orb-D1 is launched into space.
- 2014Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.
- 2015Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed following a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
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