The December 18th is the 352e Jour of the Année (353e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 13 days before the end of the year.
Events
- 1118 : The town of Saragossa falls to the hands from Alphonse the Fighter and becomes then, the capital of the Royaume of Aragon. It is the beginning of the Reconquista of the Spain by the Christians.
- 1378 : Charles V denounces the breach of Jean IV of Brittany and orders the confiscation of its duchy.
- 1439 : Zbigniew Oleśnicki, bishop of Cracow, is created cardinal, becoming the first Polish cardinal.
- 1621 : The deputies of the English Parlement proclaim their right to freedom of speech and the Immunité, and affirm their right to be informed and to inform the king of the facts that he is unaware of.
- 1644 : In Sweden, the queen Christine goes up on the throne.
- 1776 : Ratification of the first constitution of the North Carolina.
- 1782 : Foundation of the metallurgical center of Creusot by Company Perrier, Bellinger and Co .
- 1783 : William Pitt the Young person becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- 1830 : The Polish Diète unanimously adopts a proclamation which recognizes the national character of the insurrection, forcing the dictator Josef Chłopicki to accept the control of a commission indicated by the Diète.
- 1859 : The election of the marquis de appointed Dalmas of the district of Fern-Glazed, to replace Harivel, deceased
- 1865: Slavery is abolished with the the United States by the adoption of the 13th amendment
- 1891: official reception of Charles de Freycinet (1828-1923) with the French Academy.
- 1892 : First with the Theater Mariinsky of Saint-Pétersbourg of Nut-cracker, ballet of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski.
- 1902 : First of the drama of Maxime Gorki, the Hollows .
- 1903 : The Panama Canal under the perpetual control of the the United States.
- 1911 : in Munich, first exposure of the group Blaue Reiter (the blue Rider) which will play a determining role in the modern art. Group created by Wassily Kandinsky.
- 1912 : With the the United States, the Congress prohibits the country with the illiterate immigrants.
- 1923 : A convention on Tangier is signed between the France, the the United Kingdom and the Spain.
- 1925 : XIV {{E}} Congress of the PCUS, Stalin makes triumph the thesis over “socialism in only one country” over that of the world revolution defended by Trotski.
- 1939 : the first Canadians left to defend the England unload there with Aldershot .
- 1944 : First number of the newspaper Le Monde, founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry (Sirius) at the instigation of Charles de Gaulle.
- 1945 : Triumph over the part the Insane one of Chaillot , with Louis Jouvet.
- 1946 : Birth of Steven Spielberg
- 1956: The Japan is allowed with UNO.
- 1958 : Independence of the Niger.
- 1970 : In spite of a campaign of the Catholic church, the law authorizing the Divorce between in force in Italy.
- 1976 : First diffusion of the televised series Wonder Woman
- 1982: Planetary first Dream under the direction of William Stimson
- 1983: Beginning of the guerilla in Casamance
- 1985: Signature of a draft-agreement between the French government, the area Ile-de-France and the Walt Disney Company for the realization of a Disneyland park. The final contract is signed the March 24th 1987.
- 1986 :
- 1987 :
- with Seoul, thousand six hundred arrests at the time of demonstrations against the election with the presidency of Roh Tae-woo, candidate of the government.
- the New Yorkean broker Ivan Boesky is condemned to three years of prison, for various offenses of initiate.
- 1989 : In Romania, the first demonstrations against the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu are repressed in violence.
- 1991 : General firm Motors twenty-and-a factories in North America, removing seventy thousand stations (18% of the total).
- 1997 : A Ukrainian plane is crushed with the side of the Mont Olympe, in Greece, killing seventy people.
- 1998 : in South Carolina, by injection, Andrew Lavern Smith is the five-hundredth condemned carried out to the the United States since the Supreme court revalidé the capital punishment, in 1976.
- 1999 : The Space shuttle Discovery takes off for a mission of repair of the Space telescope Hubble.
- 2000 : to the Mexico, the Popocatépetl enters in eruption; some fifty thousand inhabitants will be driven out of on their premises.
- 2003 : The Iran sign additional protocol with the Treated nuclear non-proliferation (NPT).
- 2005 :
- Bolivian presidential Election: Victoire of Evo Morales, founder and leader of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (FARMHOUSE), which is placed on on the left on the Bolivian political chessboard, elected with 50,826% of the voices, which will become after its nomination in January 2006 the first president of the South American continent of Indian origin (Aymara).
- First championship of France of Sudoku.
- 2006 :
- Inauguration in France of the Synchrotron of 3rd generation SUN.
- the energy companies Norwegian Statoil and Norsk Hydro reveal a plan of fusion. The chairman and managing director of Hydro Norsk, Eivind Reiten would become president of the new group and the Norwegian State would be owner of the group with 67 %.
Births
- 1784 : François Saulnier de Saint-Jouan, corsair and ship-owner of Binic;
- 1863 : François-Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire. († June 28th 1914).
- 1873 : Gratien Candace, Politician, Secretary of State to the colonies, France, President of the Panafrican Association, 1921.
- 1878: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Politician († March 5th 1953)
- 1879: Paul Klee, Swiss painter . († June 29th 1940).
- 1890 : Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of the circuits superheterodynes and the radio FM.
- 1911 : Jules Dassin, American realizer.
- 1913 :
- 1916 : Betty Grable, actress, dancer, singer and American pinup. († July 2nd 1973)
- 1925: John Szarkowski, conservative for the Photography of the Museum off Modern Art of New York and American photographer . († July 7th 2007).
- 1931 : Gatien Lapointe, writer and poet Québécois. († 1983)
- 1932: Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut († 2002)
- 1934: Boris Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut.
- 1936 : Michael Moorcock, fantastic writer and of Science fiction.
- 1943 : Keith Richards, guitarist of the group Rolling Stones.
- 1945 : Thierry Desmarest, Chairman and managing director of Total SA.
- 1946 : Steven Spielberg, American realizer .
- 1946 : Steve Bantu Biko, militant South-African anti-apartheid († September 12th 1977)
- 1948 :
- 1951 : Andy Thomas, American astronaut
- 1952: BETTINA Rheims, French photographer
- 1954: Ray Liotta, American actor.
- 1956 : Reinhold Ewald, German spationaut
- 1961: Paul Anthony Cook, beater of the group Sade
- 1963: Pierre Nkurunziza, president of the Burundi, elected the August 19th 2005.
- 1963 : Brad Pitt, American actor .
- 1968 : Casper Van Dien, Actor.
- 1970 : Miles Marshall Lewis, American writer .
- 1971 : Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish player of Tennis .
- 1974 : Mazarine Pingeot, writer.
- 1978 : Katie Holmes, American Actress , married Tom Cruise in 2006.
- 1980 : Christina Aguilera, American singer.
Death
- 821 : Théodulphe, bishop of Orleans, close collaborator to Charlemagne
- 1142: Godefroid II of Leuwen, duke of Low-Lorraine.
- 1622 : Saint François Dirty with Lyon - born the August 21st 1567
- 1737: Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker. (° 1644)
- 1892: Richard Owen, biologist, specialist in Comparative anatomy and British paleontologist
- 1829: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist.
- 1880 : Michel Chasles, French mathematician
- 1936: Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (° January 23rd 1857)
- 1970: Marc Boegner ( Pasteur Boegner ), theologist, man of the church, essay writer and academician French (° 1881)
- 1980: Alexeï Kossyguine, Soviet politician . (° February 20th 1904)
- 1991: Armand Frappier, doctor and researcher Québécois. (° 1904)
- 1993: Sam Wanamaker, actor and realizer. (° 1919)
- 1995: Konrad Zuse, German inventive of the first Computer
- 1996: Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist
- 1998: Lev Demine, Soviet cosmonaut (° January 11th 1926)
- 1999: Robert Bresson, French realizer. (° September 25th 1901)
- 2001: Gilbert Bécaud ( François Silly ), singer type-setter and actor French. (° October 24th 1927)
- 2003: Charles Berlitz, investigating American of the paranormal (° November 120 1914)
- 2004: Anthony British Sampson writer
- 2006: Joseph Will bore, realizer, producer, scenario writer, type-setter and American actor, produced many series of cartoons, of which Tom and Jerry, Pierrafeu, Yogi the bear and Scooby-Doo. (° March 24th 1911)
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
Orthodoxe saints of the day
- Sebastien of the mount Poshekon († v. 1492), hermit
See too
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Fiu-vro: 18. joulukuu päiv
Nds-nl: 18 december
Simple: December 18
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