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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 ...
The 2018 Port Orchard tornado was a rare strong tornado that struck the city of Port Orchard, Washington on December 18, 2018. 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. There were no fatalities or major injuries reported.
2018 – List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. 2019 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time .
On December 18, 2018, the revised First Step Act passed the U.S. Senate as S. 756 on a bipartisan 87–12 vote. The House approved the bill with the Senate revisions on December 20, 2018 (358–36). The act was signed by President Donald Trump on December 21, 2018, and became Public Law 115–391. Support and opposition
On December 18, 2018, Vince Carter passed Paul Pierce on the NBA career three-pointers list with 1,145 threes made. On December 19, 2018, the Houston Rockets set the record for the most three-point field goals made in a game with 26, breaking the previous record of 25 set by the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 3, 2017.
Tuesday, December 18 President Trump agrees to shut down the Donald J. Trump Foundation following an investigation by New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood which found "a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation—including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self ...
Astronomers announce the discovery of trans-Neptunian object 2018 VG 18, the most distant object in the Solar System ever observed at a distance of ~ 120 AU. (Space.com) December 18, 2018 ( 2018-12-18 ) (Tuesday)
2018–19. 2019–20. The 2018–19 North American winter was unusually cold within the Northern United States, with frigid temperatures being recorded within the middle of the season. Several notable events occurred, such as a rare snow in the Southeast in December, a strong cold wave and several major winter storms in the Midwest, and upper ...
December 1 – February 28: Astronomical winter: December 21 – March 19: First event started: October 29, 2017: Last event concluded: April 15, 2018: Most notable event; Name: January 2018 North American blizzard • Duration: January 2–5, 2018 • Lowest pressure: 949 mb (28.02 inHg) • Fatalities: 22 fatalities • Damage: $1.1 billion ...
Gun law in the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice issues a final regulation banning the use of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to be fired at a rate similar to that of automatic weapons and became infamous following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.