18 September

The **18t o September** is the 261st day o the year (262nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 104 days bidin.

## Events

* 96 - Nerva becomes Roman Emperor.
* 1759 - Seven Years' War: Breetish forces captur Quebec Ceety.
* 1793 - The foondation stane for the Capitol Biggin in Washington, D.C. is laid.
* 1810 - Chile declares unthirldom frae Spain.
* 1851 - The New York Times is published for the first time.
* 1870 - A Henry Washburn-led expedeetion reaches the "Auld Faithful" geyser in Yellowstone Naitional Pairk.
* 1872 - Oscar II o Swaden-Norawa becomes Keeng.
* 1906 - Hong Kong is hit bi a typhoon an tsunami, killin 10,000 fowk.
* 1914 - Sooth Africae troops laund in then-German Soothwast Africae (nou Namibie).
* 1919 - Weemen in the Netherlands gain the richt tae vote.
* 1922 - Hungary is admittit tae the League o Naitions.
* 1940 - Breetish steamer "Benares" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat on the Rockall Sandbank in the North Atlantic Ocean, killin 248 fowk.
* 1947 - The US Central Intelligence Agency is creatit.
* 1952 - Charlie Chaplin leaves the Unitit States an is barred frae enterin.
* 1961 - UN Secretar General Dag Hammarskjöld is kilt in a plane crash in Zambie in unexpleened circumstances.
* 1962 - Jamaica, Trinidad an Tobago, Burundi an Rwanda jyne the Unitit Naitions.
* 1970 - Muisicker Jimi Hendrix dees in Lunnon agit 27.
* 1973 - Wast Germany, East Germany an the Bahamas jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1974 - Hurricane Fifi hits Honduras, killin 5,000 fowk.
* 1977 - Voyager 1 taks a photo o the Yird an the Muin thegither.
* 1981 - Fraunce bans the daith penalty.
* 1990 - Liechtenstein jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1997 - Jist ower half o voters in Wales support creatin a Welsh Assembly.
* 2005 - The Federal Election in Germany taks place - as a result, Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor in November o the same year.
* 2005 - Afghanistan haulds its first elections syne the defeat o the Taliban.
* 2013 - Tony Abbott becomes the 28t Prime Meenister o Australie.
* 2014 - Scots unthirldom referendum, 2014: 55.3% vote "Naw" an 44.7% vote "Aye" on Scots unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2015 - The 2015 Rugby union Warld Cup, held in Ingland an Wales, begins.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases gets tae 30 million.

## Births

* 53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
* 1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Scots philosopher an historian, Bishop o Salisbury (d. 1715)
* 1709 - Samuel Johnson, Inglis writer (d. 1784)
* 1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathemateecian (d. 1833)
* 1765 - Pape Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
* 1786 - Christian VIII o Denmark (d. 1848)
* 1804 - John Steell, Scots sculptor (d. 1891)
* 1819 - Léon Foucault, French pheesicist (d. 1868)
* 1839 - John Aitken, Scots meteorologist, pheesicist an marine ingineer (d. 1919)
* 1895 - John Diefenbaker, Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1979)
* 1905 - Greta Garbo, Swadish actress (d. 1990)
* 1923 - Queen Anne o Romanie (d. 2016)
* 1926 - Alex Rollo, Scots fitbawer (d. 2004)
* 1939 - Jorge Sampaio, umwhile Preses o Portugal
* 1946 - Jimmy O'Rourke, Scots fitbawer
* 1949 - Peter Shilton, Inglis fitbawer
* 1951 - Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon an politeecian
* 1957 - Philip May, Inglis investment banker, husband o umwhile UK Prime Meenister Theresa May
* 1958 - Rachid Taha, Algerie sangster an activist (d. 2018)
* 1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
* 1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress
* 1971 - Anna Netrebko, Roushie soprano
* 1973 - James Marsden, American actor
* 1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, Sooth African entrepreneur an space tourist
* 1974 - Sol Campbell, Inglis fitbawer
* 1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1983 - Fergus Thomson, Scots rugby union player
* 1984 - Dizzee Rascal, Inglis rapper an muisicker
* 1986 - Cammy Bell, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
* 1180 - Louis VII o Fraunce (b. 1120)
* 1783 - Leonhard Euler, German mathemateecian (b. 1707)
* 1855 - James Finlay Weir Johnston, Scots agricultural chemist an meeneralogist (b. 1796)
* 1872 - Charles XV o Swaden (b. 1826)
* 1905 - George MacDonald, Scots writer (b. 1824)
* 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swadish Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1905)
* 1967 - John Cockcroft, Breetish pheesicist (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American muisicker (b. 1942)
* 1992 - Princess Margrethe o Denmark (b. 1895)
* 2013 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German writer an leeterar critic (b. 1920)
* 2017 - Paul Wilson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1950)
* 2019 - Fernando Ricksen, Dutch fitbawer (b. 1976)
* 2020 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Unitit States Supreme Coort Juistice (b. 1933)

## Halidays

* The **18t o September** is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
:St. Dominic Trach
:St. Ferreolus
:St. Hygbald
:St. John de Massias
:St. Joseph o Cupertino
:St. Richardis
:St. Methodius o Olympus
* Naitional Day o Chile