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Disasters and accidents Utair Flight 579 Utair Flight 579 overruns the runway and catches fire while landing at Sochi International Airport, injuring 18 people. (BBC) International relations Bolivarian diaspora, Crisis in Venezuela, Venezuela–Colombia migrant crisis Colombia is preparing to declare an economic and social emergency in the region of La Guajira, which borders Venezuela. (La ...
September 14 – Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina as a category 1 hurricane, causing record-breaking flooding, which would result in 54 fatalities and $24.2 billion (2018 USD) in damages. [176] September 14–16 – Typhoon Mangkhut impacts the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, resulting in more than 60 fatalities.
June 1 – The Met Office confirms that May 2018 was the warmest May since 1910 in the UK and was also likely to be the sunniest since 1929. [11] June 10 – Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018 took place in Spain. June 24 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins the 2018 presidential elections in Turkey.
1 September – As part of the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, it becomes illegal to import non-directional halogen light bulbs into the United Kingdom. [220] 2 September – A huge fire destroys part of the Littlewoods Pools building, one of the most famous landmarks in Liverpool. [221] 3 September
Sep. 1—100 Years Ago Sept. 1, 1922 Since his conviction and sentence to pay the extreme penalty, William A. Stultz, now in jail, has undergone a complete change. Being uneducated and unable to ...
The 2018 North American cold wave takes place, with record low temperatures in the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Times Square in New York City has a temperature of 9 °F (−13 °C), with −4 °F (−20 °C) wind chill , [ 1 ] in addition to Omaha having a temperature of −15 °F (−26 °C) on December 30, 2017, lower than the ...
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Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their month-long Siege of Hereford, a Cavalier stronghold, on news of Royalist victories in Scotland. [7] 1715 – At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in succession to his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV. [8] 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home ...