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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 13 days remaining.
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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 is 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 "discovered"1926 - The Makropulos Affair opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček , premiered 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 invaded New Guinea to annex West Papua , formerly known as Netherlands New Guinea .1966 - Saturn 's moon Epimetheus was discovered by Richard L. Walker , and then lost for 12 years1973 - The Soyuz 13 was launched.1996 - "Ebonics " was declared a language or dialect by the school board of Oakland, California .1997 - HTML 4.0 is released by the World Wide Web Consortium 2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Lord of the Rings 2002 - California Governor Gray Davis announced 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.
Births 1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka , Japanese warlord (d. 1551 )1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689 )1714 - Esterházy of Galántha, field marshal (d. 1790 )1786 - Carl Maria von Weber , German composer (d. 1826 )1835 - Lyman Abbott , American author (d. 1922 )1847 - Augusta Holmčs , French composer (d. 1903 )1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914 )1870 - Saki , writer (d. 1916 )1879 - Paul Klee , Swiss painter and graphic artist (d. 1940 )1886 - Ty Cobb , American baseball player (d. 1961 )1888 - Robert Moses , New York public works official (d. 1981 )1888 - Gladys Cooper , actress (d. 1971 )1890 - Edwin Armstrong , American inventor (d. 1954 )1897 - Fletcher Henderson , jazz musician (d. 1952 )1904 - George Stevens , American director (d. 1975 )1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. , American general (d. 2002 )1913 - Alfred Bester , American science fiction author (d. 1987 )1913 - Willy Brandt , German Chancellor (d. 1992 )1916 - Betty Grable , actress (d. 1973 )1917 - Ossie Davis , actor1927 - Ramsey Clark , U.S. Attorney General during Lyndon B. Johnson 's presidency1928 - Józef Glemp, cardinal and primate of Poland 1934 - Boris Volynov , cosmonaut 1939 - Michael Moorcock , science fiction author 1943 - Keith Richards , British guitarist (the Rolling Stones )1946 - Steven Spielberg , movie director1946 - Steve Biko , South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977 )1950 - Gillian Armstrong , film director1950 - Leonard Maltin , movie critic 1955 - Ray Liotta , actor1961 - Brian Orser , figure skater 1963 - Brad Pitt , American actor1964 - Steve Austin , professional wrestler1964 - Don Beebe , American football player 1964 - Star Cullars, musician (P Funk ) 1970 - DMX , rapper1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , tennis player1973 - Miltiadis Paliouras, Canadian , geneticist1974 - Peter Boulware , American football player1975 - Trish Stratus , WWE performer1978 - Katie Holmes , American actress1980 - Christina Aguilera , American singer
Deaths 821 - Theodulf , bishop of Orléans (b. c.760 )1290 - Magnus I of Sweden , king of Sweden 1275 -1290 (b. 1240 )1737 - Antonio Stradivari , Italian violin maker (b. 1644 ?)1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American composer, 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 , former Soviet premier1990 - Paul Tortelier , French musician (b. 1914 )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, 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 , former Canadian Governor-General (b. 1934 )
Holidays and observances December 17 - December 19 - November 18 - January 18 -- listing of all days
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Volcanic Eruption in Vatnajökull (776 words)
On December 18 at 09:20 GMT, an eruption began at the southern caldera rim of the Grímsvötn caldera, in Vatnajökull, Europe's largest glacier. The Dec . 18 , 1998 earthquake swarm is smaller but strikingly similar to the swarm which preceeded the May 28, 1983 eruption in Grímsvötn. The original page in Iceland - has new photos of the Dec . 18 , 1998 eruption is probably slower for most.
2MASS Information Page: Sampler (952 words)
The fl crosses represent the RMS dispersion about the mean magnitude plotted versus the mean magnitude of all sources detected at least 16 out of the 18 times the field was observed during the night. The internal RA (top) and DEC (bottom) positional repeatability of all sources in the P161-D calibration field are shown in Figure 7 versus K As in Figure 4, the fl crosses denote sources detected at least 16 out of the 18 times the field was scanned, red points indicate sources detected less than 16 times, and the green bars show the average positional RMS in 0.5-mag bins.
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