#1 Today in History september 18 201209-18-2012, 03:25 PM
Today in History
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 George Washington lays the foundation stone for the U.S. Capitol.
1830 Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse.
1850 Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1964 U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam.
1980 Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space.
Born on September 18
1709 Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, essayist, poet and moralist.
1819 Leon Foucault, French physicist.
1827 John Towsend Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys, wrote the Jack Hazzard and Toby Trafford series.
1839 John Aitken, physician and meterologist.
1895 John G. Diefenbaker, prime minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963.
1905 Greta Garbo, actress nominated for Oscars for her roles in Anna Christie and Ninotcha.
1951 Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., African-American neurosurgeon.
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09-18-2012, 05:39 PM
1865 - John B. Stetson designed the first real cowboy hat. The Texas Rangers wore it for its versatility and durability.
1933 - At Monument Hill, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas dedicated a new vault.
1929 - Julius Myers died in San Antonio, TX. He is considered the last town crier in America.
1944 - At Best, Holland, Lt. Robert G. Cole was killed by a sniper during "Operation Market Garden." He was rewarded a Medal of Honor for his heroic actions the previous day.
1944 - In the Palau Islands, Charles Howard Roan jumped on a grenade to save his comrades. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. A Texas historical marker was placed on his family plot in the cemetery in Claude, TX.
1962 - The American League held a meeting in New York to explore the possibilities of major league baseball team in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Although the idea was deemed worthy, league owners rejected Kansas City A's owner Charley Finley's attempt to move his team to the metroplex.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
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