Daily Calendar for Thursday, September 18, 2025

Events

• Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Costa Rica– 1502
• New Hampshire territory separated from Massachusetts– 1679
• The cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was laid– 1793
• The first edition of “The New York Daily Times” went on sale. The paper later dropped “Daily” from its title– 1851
• Shirley Temple made her film debut, at the age of 3, in War Babies– 1932
• First nighttime skywriting in the U.S.– 1937
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded– 1947
• What had previously been The Toast of the Town on CBS TV since 1948 became The Ed Sullivan Show– 1955
• Final day of streetcar service in Winnipeg, Manitoba– 1955
• The UN accepts East Germany, West Germany and the Bahamas as members– 1973
• Fugitive Patty Hearst was arrested in San Francisco after spending more than six months with the Symbionese Liberation Army– 1975
• Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez first Latin American in space– 1980
• George Meegan finished an almost seven-year long walk, from the tip of South America to the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska– 1983
• Aquarium of the Bay in California reported that an angel shark had been born– 2007