Today is Tuesday, September 18, the 262nd day of 2012. There are 104 days left in the year.
1759 ― British capture Quebec during the French and 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 ― NY Times starts publishing, at 2 cents a copy
1975 ― Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
1977 ― U.S. Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth & Moon together
1982 ― Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1983 ― George Meegen completes walk across Western Hemisphere
1984 ― Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic