Sept. 18th this date in history: (Friday Erev Rosh Hashana)
1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 Coup in Haiti
1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1976 Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds “God Bless America” convention
1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1973 West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN
1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1964 Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie
1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A’s to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon
1948 Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms
1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1940 19 German air-crafts shot down above England
1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A’s beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1895 D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St
1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy
1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850