Ritika
New Delhi: The 18th day of the ninth month of the year is locked in the pages of history with many important events. On this day in 1812, a large part of the city was destroyed by a fire in Moscow and about 12,000 people died. At the same time, on 18 September 2016, there was a terrorist attack on the local headquarters of the Indian Army located along the Line of Control in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, in which many soldiers were martyred. The sequence details of other important events recorded on the date of 18th September in the history of the country are as follows:-
1180: Philip Asstus becomes King of France.
1615: Thomas Roe arrived in Surat to meet the Mughal emperor Jahangir as the representative of the King James I of England.
1803: The British captured Puri.
1810: Chile declares its independence from Spain.
1812: Fire in Moscow destroys a large part of the city, killing 12,000 people.
1851: The publication of the New York Times newspaper begins.
1919: Women got the right to vote in Holland.
1926: A cyclonic storm in Miami, USA, killed more than two hundred and fifty.
1961: The then Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test.
1967: Nagaland adopts English as an official language.
1986: Women pilots fly jets between Bombay and Goa for the first time.
1988: The constitution of Burma is repealed.
2003: First bus service started between Agartala and Dhaka.
2016: Terrorist attack on the Indian Army’s local headquarters located along the Line of Control in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, in which several soldiers were killed. (agency)
