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Sept 18

1759	The French surrendered Quebec to the British.
1793	President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810	Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1850	Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851	The first edition of The New York Times was published.
1905	Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1927	The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.
1940	"You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Bros.
1961	United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1970	Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27.
1975	Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1997	Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1997	Media mogul Ted Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations.
1998	The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.
1999	Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season twice.
2003	Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100-mph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard; the storm claimed 40 lives.
2004	Pop singer Britney Spears married dancer Kevin Federline. (The couple divorced in 2007.) ***printed from nytimes.com