Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 18

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  Daniel David Palmer
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  Bust of Tiberius
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  Marble bust of Nerva
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  Illuminated tram in Blackpool
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  Hull House
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  Interior of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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National Day in Chile	refimprove
AD 14 – Tiberius, one of Rome's greatest generals, succeeded his stepfather Augustus as Roman emperor.	primary sources
1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.	Too much uncited
1810 – Patria Vieja, the first stage of the Chilean War of Independence, began.	refimprove
1889 – Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opened in Chicago.	Template:Tl
1895 – Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment on janitor William Harvey Lillard.	"Missing page numbers" yellow banner
1898 – A flotilla of British gunboats arrived at the French fort in Fashoda, Sudan, causing a diplomatic crisis between the two nations.	"No page references" yellow banner
1911 – Premier Pyotr Stolypin, considered one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia, was fatally wounded while attending a performance at the Kiev Opera House.	Too much uncited
1931 – A section of the Japanese-built South Manchuria Railway was destroyed, providing an excuse for the Japanese to blame the act on Chinese dissidents, and thus giving a pretext for the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.	refimprove section
1939 – The Nazi propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, with a host nicknamed "Lord Haw-Haw", began broadcasting to audiences in the United Kingdom and the United States.	refimprove section
1947 – The National Security Act came into effect, establishing the Central Intelligence Agency and making the United States Air Force a separate branch of the U.S. military.	CIA: expansion+summary; USAF: refimprove section
Toni Wolff |b|1888|	Birthday not cited

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• AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
• 1048 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Byzantine forces defeated their Seljuk opponents in the flanks of the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, but learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre the next morning.
• 1851 – The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, was founded.
• 1873 – Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.
• 1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
• 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.
• 1885 – Five Chinese people were lynched outside of Pierce City in the Idaho Territory.
• 1918 – World War I: The Central Powers' defeat at the Battle of Dobro Pole played a role in the Bulgarian withdrawal from the war and led to the subsequent liberation of Vardar Macedonia.
• 1961 – An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.
• 1962 – Aeroflot Flight 213 crashed into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.
• 1964 – The wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place in Athens.
• 1981 – While posing as an aristocrat, Belgian serial killer Nestor Pirotte murdered an antiques dealer in Brussels, for which crime he was sentenced to death.
• 2001 – Five letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to various media outlets in the United States.
• Born/died this day: | Trajan |b|AD 53| Liu Sheng |d|958| Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford |b|1501| Zhang Xianzhong |b|1606| André Dacier |d|1722| Kate Booth |b|1858| Edwin McMillan |b|1907| Betty Cantor-Jackson |b|1948| Blue Panther |b|1960| Dag Hammarskjöld|d|1961| Camilo Egas |d|1962| Jimi Hendrix |d|1970| Sol Campbell |b|1974| Lewis Holtby |b|1990| Christian Pulisic |b|1998| Jamey Rodemeyer |d|2011| Haim Hefer |d|2012| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |d|2020|

Notes

• Domitian appears on September 14, so Nerva should not appear in the same year

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• 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeated Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire and ending the Tetrarchy.
• 1850 – The United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, decreeing that all escaped slaves be brought back to their masters.
• 1870 – Nathaniel P. Langford of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition first observed a geyser in the Wyoming Territory erupting at regular intervals, naming it Old Faithful (video featured).
• 1948 – The Australian cricket team's Invincibles tour of England concluded; they had played 34 matches, including five Tests, without defeat.
• 1950 – Korean War: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting, marking the farthest that the KPA would advance in the war.