December 18

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1963 - Brad Pitt
1978 - Katie Holmes

[edit] Deaths

821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker
1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744)
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829)
1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (b. 1857)
1971 - Bobby Jones, golfer (b. 1902)
1974 - Harry Hooper, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Soviet premier
1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, highly decorated German pilot during World War II (b. 1916).
1990 - Paul Tortelier, French musician (b. 1914)
1991 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
1992 - Mark Goodson, game show producer (b. 1915)
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (b. 1919)
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
1998 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926)
1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British musician (b. 1959)
2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, singer (b. 1927)
2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)

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218 BC - Battle of the Trebia, Hannibal's first great victory over the Roman Republic.
1352 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
1642 - Abel Tasman lands at Mohua Golden Bay becoming the first European in New Zealand.
1776 - North Carolina's Constitution is ratified.
1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the United States Constitution
1865 - Slavery is abolished in the United States, with the passing of the 13th Amendment
1894 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
1912 - Piltdown Man is "discovered"
1916 - The Battle of Verdun ends in World War I
1926 - The Makropulos Affair, an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, premieres in Brno, the Czech Republic.
1958 - Niger becomes an autonomous state within the French Community on December 4, 1958, after the establishment of the Fifth French Republic. Following full independence on August 3, 1960, however, membership was allowed to lapse.
1961 - Indonesia invades New Guinea to annex western New Guinea, formerly known as Netherlands New Guinea.
1965 - Japan and South Korea begin formal relations
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker, and then lost for 12 years
1969 - Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom
1973 - The Soyuz 13 was launched.
1996 - "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned by the incoming board.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is released by the World Wide Web Consortium
2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second film in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.
2002 - California Governor Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier; the budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office.

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