Talk:December 18
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December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958)
- 218 BC - Second Punic War: Hannibal Barca (pictured) had his first great victory over the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia.
- 1865 - Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
- 1961 - Indonesia invaded Dutch New Guinea to annex West Papua on New Guinea.
- 1966 - Epimetheus, one of Saturn's natural satellites, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
- 1987 - The first version of the programming language Perl was released by Larry Wall.
Recent days: December 17 – December 16 – December 15
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Moved birth from article:
- 1978 - Jiří Hofman, scientist
I found quite a few Jiří Hofman's, but none born 1978... Lupo 11:57, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Removing some apparently spurious birthdates:
- 1977 - Vinay Bhatia, Wiz Kid
- 1986 - Jordan Smith, uk superstar
- 1990 - Ann, USA, American crazy llama
Yet another vanity deletion, a writer who can't spell:
--JohnRDaily 16:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Ahead by one day? Behind?
These dates, what time zone do they correlate to? To time that the event happened per the country. Japan and Korea are ahead by one day. And there are people who are behind by one day as well. It would be nice if this was clarified. Because if someone dies in the Soviet Union, versus Christina Aguilera being born, those are different "days" for us... So is it by sunlight or relative time? --Hitsuji Kinno 16:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
