September 18

People born on this day are Virgo.

On this day in history01

1964
The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.
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1974
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
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1980
A fuel leak from a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at a USAF base near Damascus, Arkansas, results in an explosion in a missile silo, killing one person and injuring 21 others.
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1988
The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
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1988
General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
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1990
Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
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1997
The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
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2001
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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2007
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
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2013
A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
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2014
Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
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2016
The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
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