December 18 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 18
In the headlines today:

2018	At least three are killed and scores injured when the high-speed Amtrak 501 train derails on its inaugural run between Seattle and Portland.
2004	A Gibson SG electric guitar, used by The Beatles from 1966 to 1969, fetches $570,000 at a Christie's auction in New York.
1991	DeForest Kelly, who portrayed Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy on the TV series Star Trek, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1984	Actor Christopher Guest (Saturday Night Live) and actress Jamie Lee Curtis are married in Los Angeles.
1980	Former Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin dies at age 76.
1978	Dominica is admitted to the United Nations.
1969	Britain abolishes the death penalty.
1956	Japan is admitted to the United Nations.
1945	Uruguay is admitted to the United Nations.
1935	The $1 silver certificate is issued by the US Treasury.
1916	The Battle of Verdun (France), one of the bloodiest WWI engagements, ends after 10 months and massive losses to both sides.
1898	At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's first official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.
1892	Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1865	Slavery is abolished in the US as the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified.
1862	The first orthopedic hospital is organized in New York City (The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled).
1796	The first Sunday newspaper, the Monitor, is published in Baltimore, MD.
1737	Antonio Stradivari, world famous violin maker, dies in Cremona, Italy.

Born today:

1980 Christina Aguilera - pop singer

1970 DMX - rapper

1964 Brad Pitt - actor

1963 Charles Oakley - basketball player

1955 Ray Liotta - actor (Goodfellas, Field of Dreams)

1953 Elliot Easton - guitarist (The Cars, Creedence Clearwater Revisited)

1950 Leonard Maltin - movie critic

1946 Stephen Spielberg - movie director (ET, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park)

1946 Greg Landry - NFL Quarterback (Detroit Lions)

1943 Keith Richards - guitarist (The Rolling Stones)

1941 Sam Andrew - guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company)

1938 Chas Chandler - bassist (The Animals), manager (Jimi Hendrix, Slade)

1927 Ramsey Clark - US Attorney General (1967-69)

1919 Anita O'Day - jazz vocalist

1917 Ossie Davis - author, actor (A Raisin in the Sun, Grumpy Old Men)

1916 Betty Grable - actress, WWII pinup

1913 Willy Brandt - West German Chancellor

1886 Ty Cobb - baseball outfielder and hall of famer

1778 Joseph Grimaldi - clown, acrobat, mime

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