Events on September 18 75
Year 324
Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
Year 1066
Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
Year 1454
In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
Year 1714
George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
Year 1810
First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
Year 1812
The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
Year 1837
Tiffany and 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".
Year 1851
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
Year 1870
Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
Year 1873
Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
Year 1919
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
Year 1940
The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
Year 1944
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
Year 1947
The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Year 1947
The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
Year 1948
Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
Year 1948
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
Year 1960
Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
Year 1961
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Year 1962
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
Year 1980
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
Year 1988
End 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.
Year 1992
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
Year 1997
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
Year 2001
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Year 2007
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
Year 2007
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
Year 2011
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
Year 2015
Two 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.
Year 2016
Seventeen Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.