September 18
Today in America's Present Past
1611 | Micmac Chief Membertou died.
1733 | Founder George Read was born.
1779 | SCOTUS: Justice Joseph Story was born.
1793 | POTUS: President Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
1837 | Entrepreneur Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-founded "Tiffany & Co."
1842 | The first Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was published.
1850 | Congress: The Fugitive Slave Law, as part of the Compromise of 1850, was enacted.
1851 | The first New York Times was published.
1870 | Anthropologist Clark Wissler was born.
1873 | The Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression begin.
1891 | Civil Rights: The Seneca tribe gives Harriet Maxwell Converse an honorary position as chief, making her the first white woman to become a Native American chief.
1895 | Daniel David Palmer performs the first chiropractic adjustment.
1910 | Composer Leon Stein was born.
1943 | Entrepreneur William S. Harley died.
1945 | Civil Rights: 1,000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration.
1947 | The Air Force was created as a separate military service by the passing of the National Security Act.
1947 | The U.S. Department of Defense begins its first day of operation (previously had been the War Department).
1951 | Film: “A Streetcar Named Desire” debuted.
1957 | TV: "Wagon Train" debuted.
1961 | Actor James Gandolfini was born.
1970 | Musician Jimi Hendrix died.
1987 | Film: “Fatal Attraction” debuted.
1971 | Cyclist Lance Armstrong was born.
1973 | Actor James Marsden was born.
1975 | Actor Jason Sudeikis was born.
1980 | Author Katherine Anne Porter died.
2009 | Journalist Irving Kristol died.
2020 | SCOTUS: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.