18 December

The **18t o December** is the 352t day o the year (353t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 13 days bidin.

## Events

* 1352 - Pape Innocent VI is electit.
* 1787 - New Jersey becomes the 3rd state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
* 1865 - Sclavery is abolished in the Unitit States.
* 1867 - The last coach o a Loch Shore Railwey train derails, plunges doon a gully an catches fire in Angola, New York, killin 49 fowk.
* 1878 - French passenger steamer "Byzantin" collides wi Breetish steamer "Rinalto" an sinks in a storm in the Dardanelles, killin 150 fowk.
* 1914 - Egyp becomes a Breetish protectorate.
* 1921 - Fitbaa: Poland's naitional team plays its first match, losin 1-0 tae Hungary.
* 1944 - French newspaper Le Monde stairts publication.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Battle o Heligoland Bight.
* 1956 - Japan jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1958 - Niger becomes an autonomous republic.
* 1961 - Indonesie invades Wastren New Guinea.
* 1961 - Indie troops enter the then-Portuguese colonies o Goa an Daman an Diu.
* 1965 - Japan an Sooth Korea stairt formal relations.
* 1966 - Saturn's muin "Epimetheus" is discovered.
* 1969 - Caipital punishment is banned in the Unitit Kinrick. 
* 1971 - The Capitol Reef Naitional Pairk is creatit in Utah.
* 1973 - Soyuz 13 is launched.
* 1978 - Dominica jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1992 - Kim Young-sam is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
* 1997 - Kim Dae-jung is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
* 1997 - Donald Dewar publishes a blueprint for the new Scots Pairlament.
* 2005 - The Darfur conflict spreads intae Chad.
* 2006 - Elections take place in the Unitit Arab Emirates for the first time.
* 2007 - Nick Clegg becomes leader o the Breetish Leeberal Democrats.
* 2016 - Andy Murray wins the BBC Sports Personality o the Year Awaird for a record 3rd time.
* 2017 - A fire heavily damages much o the Cameron Hoose Hottle on the shore o Loch Lomond an kills 2 fowk.
* 2017 - Sebastian Kurz becomes Chancellor o Austrick, leadin a richt-wing coaleetion.
* 2019 - US Preses Donald Trump is impeached bi the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warlwide gets tae 75 million.

## Births

* 1392 - John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1448)
* 1626 - Christina, Queen o Swaden (d. 1689)
* 1662 - James Douglas, 2nt Duke o Queensberry, Scots nobleman (d. 1711) 
* 1821 - John MacGillivray, Scots naituralist (d. 1867)
* 1856 - J. J. Thomson, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1940)
* 1861 - A. G. G. Asher, Scots rugby player an cricketer (d. 1930)
* 1863 - Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick (d. 1914)
* 1878 - Joseph Stalin, Georgie-born leader o the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
* 1879 - Paul Klee, German-Swiss penter (d. 1940)
* 1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor o Wast Germany (d. 1992)
* 1926 - Jock Aird, Scots-New Zealand fitbawer
* 1943 - Keith Richards, Inglis muisicker
* 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
* 1946 - Steve Biko, Sooth African activist (d. 1977)
* 1954 - Ray Liotta, American actor
* 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
* 1963 - Pierre Nkurunziza, Preses o Burundi (d. 2020)
* 1971 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Spaingie tennis player
* 1975 - Sia Furler, Australie sangster
* 1977 - Axwell (Axel Hedfors), Swadish DJ an record producer
* 1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
* 1980 - Christina Aguilera, American sangster
* 1980 - Julie Fleeting, Scots fitbawer
* 1992 - Bridgit Mendler, American actress
* 1997 - Jack McMillan, Scots fitbawer  
* 2001 - Billie Eilish, American sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths
* 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian an poet (b. 1744)
* 1809 - Alexander Adam, Scots teacher an writer; b. 1741
* 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
* 1884 - Alexander Murray, Scots geologist (b. 1810)
* 1922 - John James Pringle, Scots dermatologist; b. 1855
* 1932 - Eduard Bernstein, German politeecian an poleetical theorist (b. 1850)
* 1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politeecian (b. 1904)
* 1995 - Konrad Zuse, German ingineer an computer pioneer (b. 1910)
* 1998 - Harry Haddock, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)
* 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, Inglis sangster (b. 1959)
* 2008 - Mark Felt, American Watergate figur (b. 1913)
* 2011 - Václav Havel, Czech playwricht an statesman (b. 1936)
* 2016 - Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-American actress an socialite (b. 1917)

## Halidays
* Republic Day (Niger)
* Naitional Day (Qatar)
* Internaitional Migrants Day
* Unitit Naitions Day o the Arabic leid