Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 18
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This is a list of selected December 18 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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
