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December 18. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 13 days remain until the end of the year.
The message recorded of Eisenhower.. SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite.Launched aboard an American Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided the second test of a communications relay system in space (the first having been provided by the USAF/NASA's Pioneer 1), [3] the first broadcast of a human voice ...
Mohamed Bouazizi appears on December 17, so Tunisian revolution should not appear in the same year. December 18: National Day in Qatar ( 1878 ) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE. 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
Japan launched its invasion of British Malaya, at Kota Bharu, at 7:00 am Hawaiian Time (1:00 am 8 December Malaya time [17]). [18] The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian Time. [19] 21 American ships and over 300 aircraft were sunk, destroyed or damaged, and 2,403 Americans were killed. Japan lost 29 planes in ...
September 18. AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the " Five Good Emperors " of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian. 1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire. 1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over ...
[18] 1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. [19] 1929 – A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. [20] 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. [21] 1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. [22]
[18] 1963 – Kenya declares independence from Great Britain. [19] 1969 – The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and ...
Old Faithful was first documented and named on this day in history, Sept. 18, 1870. The photos here show the geyser erupting in 1871. Hayden, who was the leader of the 1871 geological survey that ...