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1957 – A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois. [7] 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. 1966 – Saturn 's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
The 2018 Port Orchard tornado was a rare strong tornado that struck the city of Port Orchard, Washington on December 18, 2018. [4] The National Weather Service office in Seattle rated the tornado EF2 following an on-site survey of the storm damage the day after the event. [5]
The Kamchatka meteor was a meteor that exploded in an air burst off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on 18 December 2018. [3] At around midday, local time, [4] an asteroid roughly 10 meters in diameter entered the atmosphere at a speed of 32.0 km/s (72,000 mph), with a TNT equivalent energy of 173 kilotons, more than ...
A senior Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, is killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan. (BBC) Papua conflict. At least 19 people are killed as armed group linked to West Papua Liberation Organization attacks construction workers at Trans Papua road project in Nduga Regency, Papua, Indonesia.
On December 18, an unusually strong and damaging tornado struck the town of Port Orchard, Washington. The large EF2 tornado heavily damaged many homes and several businesses, and downed hundreds of trees and power lines. Homes had their roofs torn off, and a dry storage facility was destroyed.
On October 18, 2018, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 's Climate Prediction Center released its U.S. Winter Outlook. The outlook noted a 70 to 75% chance of El Niño developing.
The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the presidency of Donald Trump. It occurred when the 115th Congress and Trump could not ...
On December 18, 2018, the revised First Step Act [18] passed the U.S. Senate as S. 756 on a bipartisan 87–12 vote. [19] The House approved the bill with the Senate revisions on December 20, 2018 (358–36). [19] The act was signed by President Donald Trump on December 21, 2018, [20] and became Public Law 115–391.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel submits the resignation of his cabinet to King Philippe, after the biggest party in his coalition, the New Flemish Alliance, formally quit on 9 December over the government's support for the Global Compact for Migration.
December 31 – 2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse: An apartment block in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, partially collapses, killing 39 people and injuring 17 more.