September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
AIR FORCE BIRTHDAY
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth and last voyage.
1634 – Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
1789 – The first loan is made to to the U.S. government to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress. From ZERO to $16 TRILLION in just 225 years ($71.1 BILLION a year average).
1634 – Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
1789 – The first loan is made to to the U.S. government to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress. From ZERO to $16 TRILLION in just 225 years ($71.1 BILLION a year average).
1793 – On this day in 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. The building would take nearly a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British set fire to it and it was called into use during the Civil War. Today, the Capitol building, with its famous cast-iron dome and important collection of American art, is part of the Capitol Complex, which includes six Congressional office buildings and three Library of Congress buildings, all developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
1947 – National Security Act passes. The act was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. His power was initially limited and it was easy for him to exercise the authority to make his office effective. This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.
The Act merged the Department of War (renamed as the Department of the Army) and the Department of the Navyinto the National Military Establishment (NME), headed by the Secretary of Defense. It also created the Department of the Air Force, which separated the Army Air Forces into its own service.
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast. GL is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light stands as the fourth longest-running program in all of broadcast history; only the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen (first aired in 1924, cancelled 2010), the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry (first broadcast in 1925) and the BBC religious program The Daily Service (1928) have been on the air longer.
1846 – Weeks behind schedule and the massive Sierra Nevada mountains still to be crossed, on this day in 1846, the members of the ill-fated Donner party realize they are running short of supplies and send two men ahead to California to bring back food.
A month after the two men had left for California, one returned with the desperately needed provisions as well as two Indian guides to help lead the party on the final stage of the trip through the Sierras. But by then it was already late October. Hastings' "shortcut" had cost the Donner group so much time that they now risked being trapped in the high mountains if an early snowstorm chanced to fall. Unfortunately for the luckless emigrants, just such a snowstorm arrived on the night of October 28. The next day the Donner party was snowbound in the Sierras.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air as the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System with 18 stations (and WOR in New Jersey as the NYC affiliate).
A month after the two men had left for California, one returned with the desperately needed provisions as well as two Indian guides to help lead the party on the final stage of the trip through the Sierras. But by then it was already late October. Hastings' "shortcut" had cost the Donner group so much time that they now risked being trapped in the high mountains if an early snowstorm chanced to fall. Unfortunately for the luckless emigrants, just such a snowstorm arrived on the night of October 28. The next day the Donner party was snowbound in the Sierras.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air as the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System with 18 stations (and WOR in New Jersey as the NYC affiliate).
1945 – On this day in 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo, as he prepares for his new role as architect of a democratic and capitalist postwar Japan. On September 2, 1945, MacArthur signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of the victorious Allies, aboard the USS Missouri, docked in Tokyo Bay. But the man who oversaw Japan's defeat was about to put it on the road to its own kind of victory.
1959 – Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed in a California gas chamber for murdering three young women in Los Angeles. Resisting all appeals to save his life, Glatman even wrote to the appeals board to say, "I only want to die." Glatman was arrested and confessed to the three murders, seeming to delight in recounting his sadistic crimes. His trial lasted a mere three days before he was sent off to San Quentin to die.
1961 – United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies when his plane crashes under mysterious circumstances near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjold was on his way to meet with Moise Tshombe, leader of the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga, with the aim of negotiating an end to the Congo crisis. Dag Hammarskjold was posthumously awarded the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize. He was succeeded as U.N. secretary-general by U Thant of Myanmar.
1996 – On this day in 1996, Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Detroit Tigers, tying his own major league record for most strikeouts in a game.
1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed. ICANN is a nonprofit organization responsible for the coordination of maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast. GL is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light stands as the fourth longest-running program in all of broadcast history; only the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen (first aired in 1924, cancelled 2010), the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry (first broadcast in 1925) and the BBC religious program The Daily Service (1928) have been on the air longer.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)
1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (d. 1868)
1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1925 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach, only MLB pitcher to hold a perfect game trough 12 innings. (d. 1994)
1945 – John McAfee, Scottish-American computer programmer, founded McAfee
1951 – Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon and author
1951 – Darryl Stingley, American football player and scout, paralyzed in a game against the Oakland Raiders on a hit by Jack Tatum (d. 2007)
1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)
1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (d. 1868)
1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1925 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach, only MLB pitcher to hold a perfect game trough 12 innings. (d. 1994)
1945 – John McAfee, Scottish-American computer programmer, founded McAfee
1951 – Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon and author
1951 – Darryl Stingley, American football player and scout, paralyzed in a game against the Oakland Raiders on a hit by Jack Tatum (d. 2007)
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