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September 18th What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History

1975 U.S.A. Patty Hearst Arrested By FBI

18th September 1975 : Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is arrested in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery. She had been kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California on February 4, 1974 but in April she sent letters to the media saying she was joining the SLA of her own free will and later that month, a surveillance camera took a photo of her participating in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank making her a wanted criminal by the FBI.

News Report Of Patty Hearst Kidnapping 1974


Patty Hearst taking part in the April 1974 Hibernia bank raid


1933 U.S.A. Citrus Crop Damage

18th September 1933 : With the number of very heavy tropical storms this season the Citrus crops in Texas and Florida have now suffered losses ranging from 85% of the grapefruit crop in Texas to 25% of the Orange and tangerine crops in Florida. Many are hoping and praying that we have seen the last of this years tropical storms.



1942 U.S.A. Subs Sinks 4 Japanese Ships

18th September 1942 : The fight for supremacy in the Pacific Ocean is being won by Submarines from the US as yesterday they sank 4 more Japanese Ships and damaged 4 more Japanese Ships,



1956 U.S.A. Gas Price Wars At Pumps

18th September 1956 : Many towns and cities across the US are seeing price wars in filling Stations with prices changing hourly by stations wishing to increase business , the prices during a price war can range between 24.6 cents per gallon and 30.2 cents per gallon. This is great for the consumer who can save as much as 75 cents by shopping around.



1967 U.S.A. Teacher Strikes

18th September 1967 : Strikes by teaching staff in New York are no closer to a settlement after two weeks with 1.1 million children kept from classes in Public Schools. Striking teachers in Detroit have reached a settlement which will mean 300,000 school children and their teachers will be back in school next week, the agreement gives the teachers $850.00 per year increase for two years and was accepted by the vast majority during the vote.



1970 UK Jimi Hendrix

18th September 1970 : Jimi Hendrix died in London of a suspected drug overdose but the actual cause of death was he had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine. Many do not realize that Hendrix did not make it his home country ( Born in Seattle, Washington, USA ) until he had made it internationally specifically in England and Europe. Only when he appeared at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 did he gain a following in the US. Amongst the many accolades Hendrix has received Rolling Stone Magazine named Hendrix the Greatest Guitarist of All Time in 2003



1973 U.S.A. Jimmy Carter Files UFO Report

18th September 1973 : Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October

President Jimmy Carter Public Domain Photo


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1978 France South Africa Sanctions

18th September 1978 : France has returned deposits to the South African government for two submarines and two frigates due to the sanctions imposed on South Africa against the use of Apartheid



1985 U.S.A. Strategic Defense Weapons ( SDI )

18th September 1985 : President Reagan has stated that the Strategic Defense Weapons ( SDI ) which will only be used to destroy weapons will not part of negotiations on reducing offensive nuclear weapons in the upcoming talks in Geneva. The Russians have responded by stating the US is militarizing space.

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1985 United Kingdom Expulsions Soviet Diplomats

18th September 1985 : In the continued tit for tat expulsions of diplomats between the UK and Soviet Union , The Soviet Union ordered 6 Britons from the UK embassy to leave the country. This brings the total to 31 expulsions by each side in the last week.



1992 Canada Giant Mine in Yellowknife

18th September 1992 : During a strike by mineworkers at the Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Canada a bomb is planted by mine employee Roger Warren 750 feet underground which kills nine strikebreakers

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1995 Virgin Islands Hurricane Marilyn

18th September 1995 : Hurricane Marilyn batters the Virgin Islands the forth to hit the Caribbean in the last 4 weeks left at least 9 dead and many injured. The government has placed a curfew on the Island and have Marshalls on hand to stop looters.



2000 UK Southall and Ladbroke Grove Rail Crashes

18th September 2000 : A public enquiry opens today on the Southall and Ladbroke Grove Rail Crashes with victims and family members accusing Railtrack of putting costs before safety.





2003 U.S.A. Hurricane Isabel

18th September 2000 : Hurricane Isabel strikes North Carolina's Outer Banks with 105 mph winds and continued up the Eastern Seaboard to West Virginia. The storm claimed 40 lives and left six million people without power . The storm surge from Isabel washed out a portion of Hatteras Island to create what locals called "Isabel Inlet" .

Hurricane Isabel Damage To Hatteras Island  Public Domain Photo


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