Today is Tuesday, September 18, the 260th day of 2007. There are 105 days left in the year.
1739 _ The Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1759 _ Britain captures Quebec during the French and Indian War
1810 _ Chile declares independence from Spain
1851 _ The New York Times starts publishing
1927 _ The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) goes on the air (16 radio stations)
1957 _ ``Wagon Train" premiers
1977 _ U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together
1979 _ Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1980 _ Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1982 _ Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1984 _ Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1990 _ Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1991 _ Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands