12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for September 18, 2025
Today’s History:
- 96 – Roman emperor Domitian is assassinated in Rome.
- 1793 – George Washington lays the U.S. Capitol cornerstone in a Masonic ceremony.
- 1810 – Chile forms its First Government Junta, launching the independence process.
- 1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 1851 – First issue of the New-York Daily Times (later The New York Times) is published.
- 1873 – Panic of 1873 begins as Jay Cooke & Co. collapses.
- 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Exposition” (“Atlanta Compromise”) address.
- 1931 – The Mukden Incident provides Japan the pretext to invade Manchuria.
- 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent service branch.
- 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash near Ndola.
- 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested in San Francisco by the FBI.
- 2014 – Scotland votes to remain in the United Kingdom in an independence referendum.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1951 – Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon & former U.S. HUD secretary (74).
- 1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, actor-playwright (Twilight: Los Angeles, The West Wing) (75).
- 1970 – Aisha Tyler, actor, comedian & host (Whose Line, Archer) (55).
- 1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, actor-producer (Set It Off, Girls Trip) (54).
- 1971 – Lance Armstrong, cyclist & cancer advocate (54).
- 1973 – James Marsden, actor (X-Men, Westworld) (52).
- 1976 – Ronaldo Nazário, Brazilian football legend (49).
Today’s Deaths:
- 96 – Domitian, Roman emperor (44).
- 1783 – Leonhard Euler, mathematician and physicist (76).
- 1890 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor-playwright (69).
- 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary-General (56).
- 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist and singer (27).
- 2019 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch footballer (43).
- 2020 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (87).
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