Today in History, September 18th

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 18th!

1758	James Abercromby is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
1759	Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders.
1793	President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810	Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1830	Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse. Tom Thumb
1850	Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851	The first edition of The New York Times was published.
1862	After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia.
1863	Union cavalry troops clash with a group of Confederates at Chickamauga Creek.
1874	The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West.
1905	Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1911	Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff.
1914	The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1927	The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.
1929	Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air tour of South America.
1934	The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union.
1939	A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous, killing 500 people.
1947	The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect.
1948	Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator’s term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both houses of Congress.
1960	Two thousand cheer Castro’s arrival in New York for the United Nations session.
1961	UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Congo.
1964	U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam.
1970	Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27.
1973	East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to United Nations.
1975	Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by violent radical group SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army); she later took part in some of the group’s militant activities, is captured by FBI agents.
1977	Voyager I takes first photo of Earth and the Moon together.
1980	Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space.
1997	Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world’s biggest accounting firm.
1998	ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is formed to coordinate unique identifying addresses for Websites worldwide.
2009	The US television soap opera The Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode, ending a 72-year run that began on radio.