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What happened in history on this day: December 18?
On December 18 in ...
- 1777 - First US national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender.
- 1787 - New Jersey is third state to ratify US Constitution.
- 1796 - First US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor).
- 1799 - George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon.
- 1813 - British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812.
- 1839 - First celestial photograph (the moon) made in US, John Draper, New York City, New York.
- 1859 - South Carolina declares itself an "independent commonwealth".
- 1862 - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee, CSA (Forrest's Second Raid).
- 1865 - First US cattle importation law passes.
- 1865 - The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution is ratified, ending slavery.
- 1922 - (10:20 AM) Federal Reserve pickup truck takes delivery of $200,000 in $5 Federal Reserve Notes from storage at the US Mint at Denver, Colorado. Four armed robbers steal the money, with one robber and one guard killed in shoot-out.
- 1923 - US Senate confirms Robert J. Grant as Mint director.
- 1936 - Su-Lin, first giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in San Francisco.
- 1944 - US Destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan sink in typhoon off Philippines, 790 killed.
- 1958 - First test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment.
- 1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1965 - Borman and Lovell splash down in Atlantic; ends two-week Gemini VII mission.
- 1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1972 - US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1986 - Robert Gates serves as acting director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1987 - Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
- 1987 - Ivan F Boesky sentenced to three years for insider trading.
- 1991 - DeForest Kelly, (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood.
- 1991 - General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants.
- 1996 - American TV industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system.
- 1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments: ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
- 2009 - The UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, ends with a only compromise climate deal, and a vow to work out the details later. Leaders of the following countries sign on to the deal: Canada, USA, China, India, Brazil and South Africa. The agreement offers money to developing nations to help them fight global warming. The agreement is not binding and does not set new greenhouse-gas reduction targets.
- 2019 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president to be impeached in the nation's history.
- 2020 - The United States approves Moderna's vaccine for emergency use, the second brand available there.
Births on December 18
- 1861 - Birth of Edward Alexander MacDowell in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Indian Suite, Cairo).
- 1886 - Birth of Ty Cobb in Colorado, USA; batted .367, stole 892 bases (Detroit Tigers).
- 1890 - Birth of Edwin Howard Armstrong in New York City, New York, USA; radio pioneer inventor (FM).
- 1910 - Birth of Abe Burrows in Brooklyn, New York, USA; Broadway composer (Guys and Dolls, 1951 Tony Award).
- 1911 - Birth of Jules Dassin in Middletown, Connecticut, USA; director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday).
- 1913 - Birth of Lynn Bari in Roanoke, Virginia, USA; actress (Connie - Detective Wife, Earthbound).
- 1916 - Birth of Betty Grable in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Gay Divorcee).
- 1917 - Birth of Ossie Davis in Cogdell, Georgia, USA; actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam).
- 1919 - Birth of Anita O'Day in Chicago, Illinois, USA; big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton).
- 1946 - Birth of Hubie Green in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; PGA golfer (US Open 1977).
- 1947 - Birth of Steven Spielberg in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws).
- 1950 - Birth of Leonard Maltin in New York City, New York, USA; movie critic (Entertainment Tonight).
- 1951 - Birth of Candice Rialson in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Chatterbox).
- 1953 - Birth of Elliot Easton [Elliot Shapiro] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rock guitarist (The Cars).
- 1955 - Birth of Ray Liotta in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Henry Hill - Goodfellas, Sacha - Casablanca).
- 1963 - Birth of Brad Pitt in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, Legends of the Fall).
- 1963 - Birth of Lori McNeil in San Diego, California, USA; tennis star (1995 Oakland doubles).
- 1965 - Birth of Willie Blair in Paintsville, Kentucky, USA; pitcher (San Diego Padres).
- 1966 - Birth of Patricia Neder in Wauykesha, Wisconsin, USA; team handball right wing (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Bob Corkum in Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA; NHL center (Philadelphia Flyers).
- 1967 - Birth of Charles Christopher Rymer in Cleveland, Tennessee, USA; PGA golfer (1995 Shell-3rd).
- 1969 - Birth of Joe Randa in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; infielder (Kansas City Royals).
- 1971 - Birth of Joe Dziedzic in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; NHL left wing (Pittsburgh Penguins).
- 1973 - Birth of Jason Williams in Gonzales, Louisiana, USA; baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1980 - Birth of Christina Aguilera on Staten Island, New York; singer ("Genie in a Bottle", "What A Girl Wants").
- 1987 - Birth of Fernando Jara; Panamanian-born American jockey.
Deaths on December 18
- 1862 - Johnson Kelly Duncan, USA architect, CSA Brigadier-General, dies at age 35.
- 1931 - John T "Legs" Diamond, American gangster, is murdered at age 35.
- 1987 - Warne Marsh, jazz saxophonist, dies of a heart attack after collapsing onstage while giving a perfomance at Donte's in North Hollywood, California.
- 1992 - Death of Mark Goodson at age 77 of pancreatic cancer; American TV game show tycoon (Goodson-Todman productions, Beat the Clock, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, I've Got A Secret, What's My Line?).
- 1992 - Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at age 87.
- 1992 - Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Activities Committee, dies.
- 1994 - Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at age 98.
- 1997 - Death of Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy), at age 33 (born 1964).
- 2005 - Death of Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (born 1922).
- 2006 - Death of Joseph Barbera, American animator (born 1911).
- 2007 - Death of Bill Strauss, American satirist, author and historian (born 1947).
- 2008 - Mark Felt, the mysterious "Deep Throat" source who helped reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, dies at age 95 in Santa Rosa, California.
- 2008 - Death of Porsche publicist Bob Carlson in Atlanta, Georgia, USA of gallbladder cancer, at age 60.
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