Talk:December 18

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December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958) 218 BC – Second Punic War: Hannibal (pictured) had his first great victory over the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia. 1865 – Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. 1892 – The first performance of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit. 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup. More events: December 17 – December 18 – December 19 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 11:49, June 15, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Moved birth from article:

• 1978 - Jiří Hofman, scientist

I found quite a few Jiří Hofman's, but none born 1978... Lupo 11:57, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Removing some apparently spurious birthdates:

• 1977 - Vinay Bhatia, Wiz Kid
• 1986 - Jordan Smith, uk superstar
• 1990 - Ann, USA, American crazy llama

-JohnRDaily

Yet another vanity deletion, a writer who can't spell:

• 1990 - Andrew Quinn, Ammerican writer

--JohnRDaily 16:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ahead by one day? Behind?

These dates, what time zone do they correlate to? To time that the event happened per the country. Japan and Korea are ahead by one day. And there are people who are behind by one day as well. It would be nice if this was clarified. Because if someone dies in the Soviet Union, versus Christina Aguilera being born, those are different "days" for us... So is it by sunlight or relative time? --Hitsuji Kinno 16:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)