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18 September 1810: Chile declared its independence from Spain.

18 September 1851: The first edition of The New York Daily Times, which later became The New York Times, was published.

18 September 1927: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Goes on the Air.

18 September 1932: By royal decree the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd, along with its dependencies, was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

18 September 1970: 27-year-old rock star, Jimi Hendrix, died in London.


If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
- Doug Larson

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
- Henry Ford

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
- William James