September 18th Major News Events

18 Sept, 1967 U.S.A. Teacher Strikes

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.

18 Sept, 1970 UK Jimi Hendrix

September 18th, 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. Among the many accolades Hendrix has received, Rolling Stone Magazine named Hendrix the Greatest Guitarist of All Time in 2003.

18 Sept, 1973 Jimmy Carter Files UFO Report

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.

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18 Sept, 1978 South Africa Sanctions

September 18th, 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.

18 Sept, 1985 Strategic Defense Weapons

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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18 Sept, 1985 United Kingdom Expulsions Soviet Diplomats

September 18th, 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.

18 Sept, 1992 Canada Giant Mine in Yellowknife

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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18 Sept, 1995 Virgin Islands Hurricane Marilyn

September 18th, 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.

18 Sept, 2000 Southall and Ladbroke Grove Rail Crashes

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

18 Sept, 2003 U.S.A. Hurricane Isabel

September 18th, 2003 : 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."

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18 Sept, 2006 Rwanda Simon Bikindi Goes On Trial

2006 : Famous Rwandan singer, Simon Bikindi, goes on trial against charges of inciting violence in relation to the 1994 genocide of around 800,000 people. Bikindi pleaded not guilty after being accused of creating music that encouraged young people to join the Interahamwe militia and having connections to the RTLM radio station which was thought to have further encouraged the genocide by distributing “hate media.”

18 Sept, 2007 Ukraine Chernobyl

September 18th, 2007 : Ukraine announces plans to build a large steel covering over the radioactive site of the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s largest nuclear disaster. The cover is to be built by a French company and will cost $1.4 billion over five years. It is now more than 20 years since the disaster and levels of radiation still make the area uninhabitable.

18 Sept, 2009 Poland Coal Mine Explosion

2009 : A methane gas build-up explodes more than a kilometer underground in the Wujek-Slask coal mine in Poland and killed twelve miners while injuring another thirty.

18 Sept, 2011 Police in Hong Kong Make Records Drugs Bust

September 18th, 2011 : Police in Hong Kong raided five different locations across the city and arrested eight people after seizing a record-breaking amount of cocaine. The police seized half a ton of cocaine that had been hidden underneath recycled plastics with a value of 77 million dollars.

18 Sept, 2012 Poet Louis Simpson Dies

2012 : Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer prize winning poet died at the age of eighty-nine at his home in New York. Simpson was known for making poetry that chronicled the darker side of suburban life.

18 Sept, 2013 Air France Announces Further Job Cuts

September 18th, 2013 : Air France announced it had plans to cut 2,800 jobs after already planning to cut 5,100 jobs. The cuts were being made to help cut costs and turn the company around financially after merging with KLM nearly ten years earlier.