On This Day:
Thursday September 18, 2014 This is the 261st day of the year, with 104 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: connectivity It took 46 years to wire 30 percent of the U.S. for electricity; it took only 7 years for the Internet to reach that level of connectivity to U.S. homes.
Holidays Unification Church: Foundation Day.
Netherlands: Prinsjesdag, official opening of parliament at The Hague.
Bhutan: Blessed Rainy Day.
Events 1634 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British. Both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders, died in the battle.
1789 - The U.S. took out its first loan. Alexander Hamilton took the loan from the Bank of New York and Bank of North America.
1793 - President George Washington laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol.
1810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners. It was the second fugitive slave law passed by Congress.
1851 - The first edition of the "New York Times" newspaper was published.
1889 - Hull House was opened in Chicago by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first European-American woman to be made a Native American chief.
1895 - Booker T. Washington delivered his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia.
1900 - The first direct primary was held in the U.S., in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
1927 - The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later, CBS) started operations with 16 radio stations.
1934 - The League of Nations admitted the Soviet Union.
1947 - The Air Force is established as a separate branch of the military. The National Security Act was passed, unifying the Army, Navy, and Air Force of the U.S.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected to the Senate when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1957 - "Wagon Train" premiered on TV.
1964 - "The Addams Family" premiered on TV.
1965 - "Get Smart" premiered on television.
1975 - Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress and wanted fugitive, was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1977 - Ted Turner won the America's Cup in his yacht Courageous.
2003 - Hurricane Isabel hit North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and moved up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm was blamed for 40 deaths.
Births 1709 - Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer, poet, essayist, and novelist.
1819 - Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, French physicist who invented the gyroscope.
1905 - Greta Garbo (Gustafsson), Swedish-born actress.
1905 - Agnes DeMille, American dancer and choreographer for ballet and Broadway.
1908 - Satchel Leroy Paige, Major League Baseball's oldest rookie after playing 22 years in the Negro Leagues.
1920 - Jack Warden, American actor.
1938 - Robert Blake (Michel Gubitosi), American actor.
1939 - Frankie Avalon (Frances Avellone), American singer and actor.
1961 - Actor James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos"), in Westwood, New Jersey.
1964 - Holly Robinson, American actress.
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress.
Deaths 1911 - Russian prime minister Piotr Stolypin, after being shot four days earlier.
1961 - United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, 27, American rock musician and guitarist.
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