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September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 104 days remain until the end of the year.

EVENTS

96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.

96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.

1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.

1793 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.

1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

1837 – 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".

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

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg.

1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.

1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.

1906 – The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.[14]

1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.

1947 – The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.

1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.

1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

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

BIRTHS

1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (d. 1748)

1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)

1848 – Francis Grierson, English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927)

1905 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)

1905 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)

1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (d. 1990)

1914 – Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer (d. 2009)

1916 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (d. 1994)

1920 – Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)

1933 – Robert Blake, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)

1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2021)

1933 – Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (d. 2020)

1940 – Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor

1953 – Carl Jackson, American singer-songwriter and producer

1961 – Mark Olson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1962 – Boris Said, American race car driver

1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer

1970 – Aisha Tyler, American actress, television host, and author

1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist

1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress

1973 – James Marsden, American actor

1978 – Billy Eichner, American actor and comedian

DEATHS

96 – Domitian, Roman emperor (b. AD 51)

411 – Constantine III, Roman usurper

893 – Zhang Xiong, Chinese warlord

958 – Liu Sheng, Chinese emperor (b. 920)

1137 – Eric II, king of Denmark

1180 – Louis VII, king of France (b. 1120)

1872 – Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)

1915 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree

1970 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)

1998 – Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (b. 1939)

2013 – Lindsay Cooper, English composer, bassoon and oboe player (b. 1951)

2013 – Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)

2013 – Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)

2013 – Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)

2020 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1933)

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