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1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the US
1917 - Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1918 - The Romanov royal family are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad Siberia
1936 - Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1959 - North by Northwest directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
1968 - The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine premieres in London
1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1992 - Slovak parliament declares independence from Czechoslovakia, beginning the so-called Velvet Divorce
2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
 
1732 Foundations laid for Bank of England
1793 France becomes the first country to use the metric system
1834 Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI
1936 Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1972 First article exposing the Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward in The Washington Post
1987 Mike Tyson outpoints Tony Tucker in 12 in a heavyweight boxing unification matchup in Las Vegas, becoming the first to own all 3 major belts (WBA, WBC and IBF) at the same time
1994 The Rolling Stones begin their Voodoo Lounge world tour
2012 Bradley Wiggins' win in the London Olympics cycling time trial gives him the most aggregate medals (7) of any British Olympian (4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
 
1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed whereby the Dutch Republic sells New Holland (Brazil) for 63 tonnes of gold to Portugal
1932 - 1st Venice Film Festival opens
1940 - Estonia is annexed into the Soviet empire
1945 - The first atom bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
1961 - British racing driver Sterling Moss scores his 15th and final Formula 1 victory in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring
1973 - Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4-day coma
1984 - American athlete Carl Lewis wins the long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet
1996 - George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel A Game of Thrones, the first in his series A Song of Ice and Fire
1996 - Punk rock band The Ramones perform for the last time at the Palace in Hollywood
 
1844 - Brigham Young was chosen as head of the Mormon Church following the death of Joseph Smith
1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1925 - First national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000 people) in Washington, D.C.
1942 - General Montgomery is appointed the commander of the British 8th Army at Alamein
1945 - US, USSR, Britain & France sign the Treaty of London, setting down procedures for Nuremberg trials. USSR also declare war on Japan
1963 - The Great Train Robbery: £2.6 million is stolen
1968 - The Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president
1974 - US president Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12 pm the next day
1987 - Pakistan all out for 708 v England at The Oval; Ian Botham has figures of 3-217
1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
1995 - Gangster's Paradise is released by Coolio
 
1173- Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete
1483- Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
1815- Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board the British ship Northumberland
1898- German Rudolf Diesel patents the first internal combustion engine
1945- The US drops the second atomic bomb - "Fat Man" - on Nagasaki
1965- Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains its independence
1971- Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland, allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial
1974- Richard Nixon resigns as US president and vice-president Gerald Ford takes his place to become the 38th US president
1984- Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles
2012- Usain Bolt becomes the first man to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back-to-back Olympics
 
AD79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum. 15,000 die
1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1847 - Charlotte Brontë finishes the manuscript of Jane Eyre
1938 - England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
1940 - The Luftwaffe bombs London
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) comes into effect
1961 - Former South African Nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's Minister of Justice
1968 - France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs-to-life for John Lennon's murder
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary General of the USSR Communist Party
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet
2014 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and director, dies aged 90
2017 - The largest-ever lottery jackpot win in the US - $758.7m won by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts in US Powerball Jackpot
 
AD301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world (and the world's oldest republic still in existence) is founded by Saint Marinus
1651 - Battle of Worcester: Oliver Cromwell destroys the English royalists
1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1878 - British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice is sunk following a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell powers the Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah - the first automobile to exceed 300mph
1939 - Britain declares war on Germany after the invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
1940 - Hitler orders the invasion of Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1944 - The 68th and final transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz
1978 - Pope John Paul I is officially installed as the 263rd supreme pontiff. He passed away just 33 days later
1995 - eBay (Electronic Bay) is founded by Pierre Omidyar
 
1787 - The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia
Convention
1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia is proclaimed
1954 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London
1959 - Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
1964 - The Supremes release Baby Love
1980 - Polish workers, under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa, found the Solidarity movement at the Gdańsk Shipyard
1988 - 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
1993 - The last Russian troops leave Poland
 
Ebay... Love it! Had a major clearout of stuff this month, made over £1000 ! Thanks Pierre.
 
Ooh I forgot about this post. Thanks for bump it it JPA. I went to look for on this day and this popped up at the top of Google

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

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Meanwhile in other on this day news


  • 1811 British expeditionary army conquers Dutch Indies
  • 1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
  • 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
  • 1914 Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
  • 1931 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
  • 1942 The order for 'extermination asocials through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice
  • 1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing
 
The film recently released is good on Freddie Mercury.

27 years, good grief, I was at Uni and working nights at Cadbury distribution back then. Happy days, that was before my brain broke!

Queen's last album, Made In Heaven is a great album, some of the lyrics are very touching.
 
1530 - English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1962 - The Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in colour on television
1987 - Mike Tyson beats James 'Bonecrusher' Smith in 12 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"
2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected
 
1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland
1814 - Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba
1890 - Ellis Island, New York, is designated as an immigration station
1912 - RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York
1933 - Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia
1941 - Germany blitz of Coventry
1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule
1961 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem
1965 - 29th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National: Jack Nicklaus wins the 2nd of his 6 Masters titles with a tournament record 271 (−17)
1970 - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; it is unable to land and returns in 6 days
1976 - The Apple I computer, created by Steve Wozniak, is released
1977 - Mrs JPA is born in Newport, Wales
1981 - Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for the World Heavyweight boxing title
1984 - General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko named President of the Soviet Union
2000 - South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is sacked after admitting dishonesty following match-fixing allegations in India
2014 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens
 
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London
1793 - Bank of England issues first £5 note
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington
1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
1945 - British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen
1955 - Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast-food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois
1966 - The Rolling Stones release Aftermath
1986 - Viv Richards hits a century off 56 balls v England in the Antigua Test
1997 - The Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe
2013 - Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line