Historical Events on September 18.

1. World Water Monitoring Day

2. 1810, 18th September – Chile got independence from Spain.

3. 1851, 18th September – The first edition of the New York Times was published.

4. 1882, 18th September – The Pacific Stock Exchange opened.

5. 1914, 18th September – The Irish Home Rule Bill was given to Royal assent.

6. 1919, 18th September – The Netherlands gave women the right to vote.

7. 1924, 18th September – Mahatma Gandhi’s 21 days fast for Hindu-Muslim unity began.

8. 1947, 18th September – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were established in the United States.

9. 1948, 18th September – Operation polo was terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.

10. 1962, 18th September – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad, and Tobago joined the United Nations.

11. 1971, 18th September – In Krishnapur, the Pakistani occupation army shot 127 Bengali Hindus to death. In the neighboring villages, more than 100 Hindus were killed.

12. 1978, 18th September – President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israel’s Prime minister Menachem Begin reached a peace agreement.

13. 2016, 18th September – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 18.

1. AD 53 – Trajan, Roman emperor. 

2. 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and celebrated conventionalist whose dictionary used as the authoritative reference book for more than a century. 

3. 1867 – Ganendranath Tagore, Indian painter, and cartoonist.

4. 1883 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian revolutionary.

5. 1900 – Shivsagar Ramgoolam, the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.

6. 1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress.

7. 1906 – Kaka Hathrasi, India poet and comedian.

8. 1909 – Kwane Nkrumah, Ghanaian prime minister and then president from independence in 1957.

9. 1945 – John McAfee, an American computer programmer, and businessman. He founded the software company McAfee Associates in 1987.

10. 1950 – Shabana Azmi, Indian actress. She is a wife of a famous poet from India Javed Akhtar.

11. 1950 – Vishnuvardhan, an Indian actor who works predominantly in Kannada language films.

12. 1971 – Lance Armstrong, the American cyclist who won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999, after surviving cancer for which he now raises awareness and support.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 18.

1. 1783 – Leonard Euler, Swiss mathematician.

2. 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Premier. He died after being shot down at the opera in Kiew last week by a police double agent.

3. 1915 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree.

4. 1930 – Joseph Baptista, an Indian politician and activist.

5. 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate.

6. 1967 – Sir John Cockroft, an English nuclear physicist who first splits the atom.

7. 1992 – Muhammad Hidayatullah, the sixth Vice President of India.

8. 1995 – Kaka Hathrasi, India poet and comedian.

9. 2017 – Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet, translator, and playwright.

18-September-1615

Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.

18-September-1803

Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.

18-September-1803

Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.

18-September-1867

Ganganendranath Tagore, great painter, patriot and artist, was born in Calcutta.

18-September-1879

Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born.

18-September-1909

Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born.

18-September-1917

Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).

18-September-1924

Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. "Nothing I say or write," he said, "can bring the two communities together." Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. "It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide".

18-September-1925

Pranlal Harkisandas Vora, leader in Maharashtra, was born.

18-September-1927

Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce was established.

18-September-1932

A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence.

18-September-1941

Arjuncharan Srimukh Sethi was born in Odang village in Balasore (now known as Bhadrak) in Orissa.

18-September-1958

Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, passed away.

18-September-1965

Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China.

18-September-1967

English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .

18-September-1972

Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.

18-September-1972

India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.

18-September-1990

Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.

18-September-1992

Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court.

18-September-1992

M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87.

18-September-1993

Asit Sen, famous comedy actor and character artist, died.

18-September-1995

Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet, died.

18-September-1996

Suresh Mehta ministry wins the confidence vote in Gujarat .

18-September-1997

President K.R. Narayanan inaugurates Mammen Mappillai Hall at Kottayam, Kerala.

18-September-2000

Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states.

18-September-2000

President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.