Today is Thursday, September 18, the 262nd day of 2008. There are 104 days left in the year.
1793 _ Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1810 _ Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 _ A horse beats the first U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1851 _ N.Y. Times starts publishing
1945 _ 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Ind., schools to protest integration
1962 _ Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the U.N.
1974 _ Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1977 _ U.S. Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together
1982 _ Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1983 _ George Meegen completes walk across Western Hemisphere