About December 18
December 18, 2024 is the 353rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 42 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 18
- 218 BC –Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
- 1271 –Kublai Khan renames his empire “Yuan” (ࠠ3; yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China.
- 1642 –Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
- 1777 –The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
- 1787 –New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1793 –Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
- 1878 –John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
- 1888 –Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
- 1892 –premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
- 1898 –Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car.
- 1912 –The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
- 1915 –U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
- 1956 –Japan joins the United Nations.
- 1971 –Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
- 1973 –Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
- 1973 –The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
- 1999 –NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
- 2006 –The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
- 2006 –United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
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