Today In History - September 18

1755 Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens
1793 Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol building
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain
1830 A horse beats the first US made locomotive in a race near Baltimore
1851 New York Times starts publishing, at 2-cents a copy
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens as: the Local Security Board
1895 Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address
1895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first chiropractor
1911 Britain's first twin-engine airplane is test flown
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with the Germans beating the French during WW I
1919 Hurricane tides are 16 feet above normal, and drown 280 people along the Gulf Coast
1926 Hurricane hits Miami and kills 250 people
1927 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) goes on the air with16 radio stations
1942 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is authorized for radio service
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Indiana schools to protest integration
1948 Ralph J. Bunche is confirmed as the acting UN mediator in Palestine
1957 The TV series "Wagon Train" premiers
1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad are admitted to the UN
1965 The TV series "Get Smart" premiers
1970 Jimi Hendrix, the rock guitarist, dies at age 27
1972 The first black NL umpire: Art Williams
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes the Honduras with 110 mph winds and 5,000 people die
1975 Heiress turned bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco
1977 US Voyager I takes the first space photographs of the Earth and Moon together
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's first admittedly gay judge
1982 A Christian militia begin the massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1984 Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 Summer Olympics

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