Today is Friday, September 18, the 261st day of 2009. There are 104 days left in the year.
1739 _ Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1759 _ British capture Quebec during the French- Indian War
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 _ New York Times starts publishing, at 2 cents a copy
1945 _ 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Ind., schools to protest integration
1977 _ U.S. Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together
1979 _ Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1982 _ Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon