WHAT HAPPENED ON 18. SEPTEMBER
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The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting. (18. September 1939)

The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees. (18. September 1940)

World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór. (18. September 1943)

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. (18. September 1943)

World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed. (18. September 1944)

General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo. (18. September 1945)

The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces. (18. September 1947)

The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act. (18. September 1947)

Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army. (18. September 1948)

Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies. (18. September 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. (18. September 1948)

Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. (18. September 1959)

Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. (18. September 1960)

U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (18. September 1961)

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations. (18. September 1962)

Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie. (18. September 1964)

North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. (18. September 1964)

The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. (18. September 1973)

Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people. (18. September 1974)

Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List. (18. September 1975)