Today is Friday, September 18, the 261st day of 2015. There are 104 days left in the year.
1739 ― Treaty of Belgrade; Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1759 ― British capture Quebec during the French and Indian War
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, at 2 cents a copy
1945 ― 1,000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
1975 ― Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
1979 ― Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 ― Steven Lachs, appointed California's first admittedly gay judge
1982 ― Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1990 ― A 500-pound 6-foot Hershey Kiss is displayed at Times Square, NYC