What Happened On December 18

What Happened On Dec 18 Timeline

1352 Dec 18 Étienne Aubert (Innocent VI) elected Pope
Pope Innocent VI (1282 or 1295 – September 12, 1362), born Étienne Aubert, Pope at Avignon from 1352 to 1362, the successor of Pope Clement VI (1342–52), was a native of the hamlet of Les...
1787 Dec 18 New Jersey Ratifies the US Constitution and is the 3rd State Admitted to the Union
Whereas a Convention of delegates from the following states, viz.,--New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro...
1813 Dec 18 Old Fort Niagara Is Captured
In the final hours of December 18, 1813, approximately midway through the War of 1812, some 500 British soldiers (regulars) as well as some 500 militia and Indians—crossed the Niagara Riv...
1867 Dec 18 The Angola Horror
The bridge crossing the Big Sister creek is about a quarter of a mile east of the village of Angola. The train to which the accident happened was two hours late, having been detained by a...
1878 Dec 18 Joseph Stalin Is Born
Joseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia on 21st December, 1879. He was his mother's fourth child to be born in less than four years. The first three died and as Joseph was prone to bad h...
1878 Dec 18 Joseph Swan Demonstrates Lamp with Carbon Rod
With the help of Charles Stearn, an expert on vacuum pumps, in 1878 Swan developed a method of processing that avoided the early bulb blackening. This received a British Patent No 8 in 18...
1914 Dec 18
to 1914 Dec 22
 Battle Of Givenchy
Battle of Givenchy (December 18-December 22, 1914) was a battle fought during World War I as part of the First Battle of Champagne, that saw an initially advancing British force face stro...
1915 Dec 18 "Burlesque on Carmen" (film) is Released
Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen was Chaplin's 13th film for Essanay Films. It was released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Darn...
1931 Dec 18 À Nous La Liberté
À nous la liberté (English: "Freedom for Us") is a 1931 French film, directed by René Clair. With a memorable score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early fi...
1932 Dec 18 Rosa Parks marries Raymond Parks
In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery, at her mother's house. Raymond was a member of the NAACP, at the time collecting money to support the Scottsboro Boys, a gro...
1939 Dec 18
to 1940 Jan 11
 Battle of Kunlun Pass
The Battle of Kunlun Pass (simplified Chinese: 昆仑关战役; traditional Chinese: 崑崙關戰役; pinyin: Kūnlúnguān Zhànyì) was a series of struggles between the Japanese and the Chinese in contention...
1943 Dec 18 Largest Allied Assault on 'The Gully' is Abandoned after Devastating German Retaliation
On 18 December, Vokes planned what would be the largest assault on The Gully during the campaign. Beginning at 0800, Canadian artillery would bombard a 900-metre (3,000 ft) front, to a de...
1956 Dec 18 "Baby Doll" Is Released
Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy. It stars Karl ...
1962 Dec 18 "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol" First Airs
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous short story A Christmas Carol. It was the first animated holiday special ever produced specifically for t...
1965 Dec 18 Operation Game Warden
Operation Game Warden, Task force 116, was an operation to deny Viet Cong access to the resources in the Mekong Delta which was conceived of in December 1965. River Patrol Force Dispos...
1966 Dec 18 "Blowup" Is Released
Blowup (as shown in the screen credits, also rendered as Blow-Up on promotional and packaging materials) is a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, that director's...
1966 Dec 18 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" First Airs
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a 1966 American animated television special directed by Chuck Jones. It is based on the homonymous children's book by Dr. Seuss, the story of The Grinch...
1969 Dec 18 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) released
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, and the only one to star George Lazenby as ...
1972 Dec 18 Joe Biden's wife and daughter killed in car accident
On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Neilia ...
1972 Dec 18
to 1972 Dec 29
 Operation Linebacker II
Operation Linebacker II was a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombardment campaign, conducted against targets in North Vietnam during the final period of the Ame...
1973 Dec 18 "Amarcord" Is Released
Amarcord (1973), directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman (coming-of-age tale) that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast o...
1975 Dec 18 "Barry Lyndon" Is Released
Barry Lyndon (1975) is a period film by Stanley Kubrick loosely based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray. It recounts the exploits of unscrupulous...
1981 Dec 18 "Absence Of Malice" Is Released
Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher (Paul Newman), the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Mi...
1985 Dec 18 "The Color Purple" Is Released
The Color Purple (1985) drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Wal...
1987 Dec 18 North American Release of Final Fantasy for the NES
Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) is a console role-playing game created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and published in Japan by Square (now Square Enix) in 1987, and publis...
1988 Dec 18 MST3K Ep. K06 - "Gamera vs. Gyaos"
This episode saw Servo's transformation into Tom Servo, following the birth of his "Mighty Voice". Movie Summary: Gamera fights the pterodactyl-like Gyaos.
1993 Dec 18 MST3K Ep. 520 - "Radar Secret Service"
(Short: Last Clear Chance) A branch of the Secret Service uses radar to track down uranium smugglers. The 1959 educational short, produced by Union Pacific Railroad, teaches drivers to pa...
1994 Dec 18 Packers beat Falcon's 21-17 on Brett Favre's last second touchdown run
Dec. 18, 1994, vs. Atlanta in Milwaukee. With the Packers needing a victory to keep their playoff chances alive, Favre's diving 9-yard touchdown run with 14 seconds left gives the Packers...
1996 Dec 18 FDA Approves Pharmacia and UpJohn's Glyset
Treating type 2 diabetes in adults whose diabetes cannot be managed with diet alone. Glyset may be used alone, in combination with other oral diabetes medicines, or with insulin. Acarb...
1998 Dec 18 "The General" Is Released
The General is a true film about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted attention from the Garda, IRA, and UVF. The film was...
2000 Dec 18 Stephen King publishes The Plant
The Plant is a serial novel published in 2000 as an e-book by Stephen King. The American author Stephen King wrote a few parts of a story by the same name and sent out as chapbooks to ...
2001 Dec 18 Nas Releases Stillmatic
Stillmatic is the fifth studio album by American hip hop rapper Nas, released December, 2001 on Columbia-imprint label Ill Will Records. It was a critical success that re-established Nas'...
2002 Dec 18 "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" Is Released
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is the second f...
2007 Dec 18 "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" Rifftrax is Released
The Fantastic Four are back! Or the Fantastic Four is back! Depending upon whether one is referring to the title of the film, the four individuals who are fantastic and number four, or th...
2007 Dec 18 Lupe Fiasco releases "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool"
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, commonly referred to as simply The Cool, is the critically acclaimed second studio album by Chicago hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco, released on December 18, 2007 in th...
2007 Dec 18 Yulia Tymoshenko Is Appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine For a Second Term
Following balloting in the 2007 parliamentary elections held on September 30, 2007, Orange Revolution parties said they had won enough votes to form a governing coalition. As of October 3...
2008 Dec 18 Boston Bruins defeat Toronto Maple Leafs, 8-5
The bottom line: The Bruins, putting up offensive numbers that belong in an Xbox console, scored an 8-5 blowout over Toronto last night before 17,565 at TD Banknorth Garden, stretching th...
2008 Dec 18 Trial Courts Enter Judgement in Favor of the City of Chicago in McDonald v. City of Chicago
At issue is the constitutionality of the Chicago handgun ban. When the case was originally contested, a trial court ruled in favor of the City of Chicago on December 18, 2008. This deci...
2009 Dec 18 Avatar (2009 Movie) is released
Avatar is a 2009 American 3-D science fiction epic film written and directed by James Cameron, and was released on December 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The film is co-produced by Lights...
2009 Dec 18 Bernard Madoff Moved to Prison Medical Center
Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was moved last week to the medical center within a federal prison for undisclosed reasons, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said on Wednes...
2009 Dec 18 Chicago Blackhawks defeat Boston Bruins, 5-4
CHICAGO - The Blackhawks had shut out their last two opponents. They had given up the fewest goals in the league. They have arguably the NHL’s best defensive tandem in Duncan Keith and Br...
2009 Dec 18 Cleveland Cavaliers defeat Milwaukee Bucks, 85-82
Cleveland — Too little, too late. That was the story for the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night as they rallied from a 15-point, fourth-quarter deficit and had a chance at a game-tying sh...
2009 Dec 18 Day Twelve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Wen delivered a speech titled "Build Consensus and Strengthen Cooperation to Advance the Historical Process of Combating Climate Change" at the opening session of the leaders' meeting of ...
2009 Dec 18 Minnesota Timberwolves defeat Sacramento Kings, 112-96
Out of necessity, the Timberwolves found invention and a 112-96 victory over Sacramento on Friday night at Target Center. Forced to improvise after Jonny Flynn collected two fouls in t...
2009 Dec 18 New York Knicks defeat Los Angeles Clippers, 95-91
Nate Robinson's agent continues to reach out to Donnie Walsh in an attempt to free his client from Mike D'Antoni's doghouse. Walsh confirmed Friday that Aaron Goodwin contacted him ear...
2009 Dec 18 Notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei ' Sign Stolen from Site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire a...
2009 Dec 18 Philadelphia 76ers defeat Boston Celtics, 98-97
Celtics roll to a stop Big lead - and 11-game winning streak - given away in second half By Julian Benbow, Globe Staff | December 19, 2009 Whatever the problems were, overconfide...
2010 Dec 18 United States Senate Votes To Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
The Senate on Saturday struck down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans...
2011 Dec 18 Vaclav Havel Dies
Activist and former Czech president Vaclav Havel died in his home near Prague Sunday at the age of 75, Reuters reported.