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Events on September 18

• 1793 The cornerstone of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. is laid by George Washington.
• 1848 During the September unrest in the Free City of Frankfurt, the delegates of the Frankfurt National Assembly, Hans von Auerswald and Felix von Lichnowsky, are murdered. In the fighting at the barricades, 30 insurgents and 12 soldiers are killed.
• 1851 The first issue of the American daily newspaper The New York Times is published under the title The New York Daily Times.
• 1919 The Ufa Film Palace opens in Berlin. First film: Madame Dubarry by Ernst Lubitsch.
• 1925 As the first major party in Europe, the SPD calls for the realization of a United States of Europe in its adopted Heidelberg Program.
• 1948 During the airlift, 897 flights to West Berlin are made in a single day, the highest number of flights in one day.
• 1973 The UN General Assembly decides to admit both German states to the United Nations.
• 1977 Voyager 1 takes the first photo in which Earth and the Moon can be seen together (in full).
• 1984 For environmental reasons, the German federal government decides to make vehicle catalytic converters compulsory from 1989.
• 1987 In the Barschel affair, Uwe Barschel attempts during a press conference to refute the accusations raised against him with his personal word of honor.
• 2005 In the election for the 16th German Bundestag, the red-green federal government loses its parliamentary majority.
• 2015 The emissions scandal becomes public.

Born on September 18

• 1852 Hans Wagner, German father of the Philatelic Days
• 1895 John Diefenbaker, Canadian politician
• 1920 Jack Warden, American actor
• 1942 Wolfgang Schäuble, German administrative lawyer and politician
• 1951 Dee Dee Ramone, American musician
• 1960 Wolfgang Bahro, German actor and cabaret artist
• 1971 Lance Armstrong, American racing cyclist and triathlete
• 1971 Anna Jurjewna Netrebko, Russian-Austrian opera singer
• 1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress and model
• 1990 Lewis Holtby, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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