Events on September 18 75
Events on this day include: Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Em... (324); Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England. (1066); Philip Augustus becomes king of France. (1180).
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Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands on the beaches of Scarborough and begins his invasion of England.
In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
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.
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.
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".
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad.
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.
Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
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.
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
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.
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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.
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
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.
Seventeen Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by anti-government militants.