What happend on 18th September

17.09
19.09
1985

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer.

1976

Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing.

1975

Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

1961

U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1947

The United States Department of Defense begins operation (formerly known as National Military Establishment).

1947

The United States Air Force is created seperate from the United States Army.

1943

The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.

1942

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.

1932

Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the H in the Hollywood sign, forever turning the sign into a symbol for the paradox of the American film industry.

1931

Mukden Incident, a.k.a "9.18 Incident". After that, Japan occupied Manchuria.