Cool events that happened on September 18th

• 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
• 1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
• 1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
• 1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• 1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which would become The New York Times.
• 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone
• 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
• 1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
• 1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• 1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
• 1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
• 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• 1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

I share a birthday with

• 1905 – Greta Garbo
• 1971 – Lance Armstrong
• 1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith
• 1973 – James Marsden
• 1979 – Alison Lohman

Deaths on my bday

• 1970 – Jimi Hendrix