Today is Saturday, September 18, the 261st day of 2010. There are 104 days left in the year.
1739 ― Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1810 ― Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 ― A horse beats the first U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1851 ― The NY Times starts publishing, at 2 cents a copy
1914 ― Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WWI
1975 ― Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in S.F.
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
1983 ― George Meegen completes 2,426-day (19,000-mile) walk across Western Hemisphere