What Happened on 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... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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.... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"Amarcord" Is Released

Amarcord (1973), directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman (coming-of-age tale) that combines poignancy with bawdy... Read more

"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.... Read more

"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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more