December 18
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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 13 days remaining.
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Events
- 218 BC - Battle of the Trebia, Hannibal's first great victory over the Roman Republic.
- 1352 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
- 1642 - Abel Tasman lands at Mohua Golden Bay becoming the first European in New Zealand.
- 1776 - North Carolina's Constitution is ratified.
- 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the United States Constitution
- 1865 - Slavery is abolished in the United States, with the passing of the 13th Amendment
- 1894 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
- 1912 - Piltdown Man is "discovered"
- 1916 - The Battle of Verdun ends in World War I
- 1926 - The Makropulos Affair, an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, premieres in Brno, the Czech Republic.
- 1958 - Niger becomes an autonomous state within the French Community on December 4, 1958, after the establishment of the Fifth French Republic. Following full independence on August 3, 1960, however, membership was allowed to lapse.
- 1961 - Indonesia invades New Guinea to annex western New Guinea, formerly known as Netherlands New Guinea.
- 1965 - Japan and South Korea begin formal relations
- 1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker, and then lost for 12 years
- 1969 - Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom
- 1973 - The Soyuz 13 was launched.
- 1996 - "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board.
- 1997 - HTML 4.0 is released by the World Wide Web Consortium
- 2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second film in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.
- 2002 - California Governor Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier; the budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office.
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Births
- 1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
- 1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
- 1610 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (d. 1688)
- 1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
- 1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
- 1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
- 1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
- 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
- 1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
- 1847 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)
- 1856 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
- 1870 - Saki, British writer (d. 1916)
- 1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
- 1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
- 1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter and graphic artist (d. 1940)
- 1886 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1888 - Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)
- 1888 - Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)
- 1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954)
- 1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (d. 1952)
- 1904 - George Stevens, American director (d. 1975)
- 1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (d. 2002)
- 1913 - Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987)
- 1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992)
- 1916 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1917 - Ossie Davis, American actor
- 1927 - Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General
- 1927 - Romeo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
- 1928 - Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal
- 1934 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
- 1939 - Michael Moorcock, British author
- 1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (the Rolling Stones)
- 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
- 1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
- 1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician and artist
- 1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director
- 1950 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
- 1955 - Ray Liotta, American actor
- 1956 - Ron White, American comedian
- 1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
- 1961 - Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater
- 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
- 1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
- 1964 - Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
- 1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
- 1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
- 1970 - DMX, American rapper
- 1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
- 1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
- 1972 - DJ Lethal, American musician (Limp Bizkit)
- 1973 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory)
- 1974 - Peter Boulware, American football player
- 1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer
- 1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
- 1977 - Ryan Scott Ottney, American comic book writer
- 1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
- 1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
- 1987 - Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
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Deaths
- 821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
- 1133 - Hildebert, French writer
- 1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
- 1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
- 1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
- 1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
- 1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
- 1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
- 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744)
- 1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
- 1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
- 1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
- 1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (b. 1857)
- 1971 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
- 1974 - Harry Hooper, baseball player (b. 1887)
- 1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the USSR (b. 1904)
- 1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German World War II pilot (b. 1916)
- 1990 - Paul Tortelier, French musician (b. 1914)
- 1991 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
- 1992 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915)
- 1993 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1994 - Roger Apéry, French mathematician (b. 1916)
- 1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
- 1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
- 1998 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- 1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
- 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British musician (b. 1959)
- 2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
- 2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)
- 2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
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Holidays and observances
- Feast of Epona (during Saturnalia) - Roman Empire
- Republic Day in Niger (1958)
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External links
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