What Happened in September 2018

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• Sep 2 About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting
• Sep 2 Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts
• Sep 3 2018 heatwave made summer hottest ever in England, joint hottest for UK according to UK Meteorological Office
• Sep 3 Argentine President Mauricio Macri announces new austerity measures, including closing half of all government ministries, in televised address
• Sep 3 First public caning and conviction of lesbian couple attempting to have sex, by Sharia High Court in Terengganu state, Malaysia
• Sep 4 400-year old sunken Portuguese spice trade ship discovered near port of Cascais, Portugal
• Sep 4 Amazon becomes America's second trillion dollar company

• Sep 4 Italian city Florence bans people eating in the street in its historic center

• Sep 4 Strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years, Jebi hits Tokushima prefecture, swamping Kansai airport and killing at least 11
• Sep 4 WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don't get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases
• Sep 5 Anonymous senior White house official opinion piece "I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" published by the New York Times

• Sep 6 India's Supreme Court legalizes gay sex, overturning a colonial law
• Sep 6 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states investigating
• Sep 6 Remains of 166 people, 2 years old, found in mass grave in Veracruz state, Mexico
• Sep 6 World Surf League announces from 2019 there would be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events; first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity

• Sep 8 75th Venice International Film Festival: a Netflix film wins the Golden Lion for the first time with "Roma"
• Sep 8 Archaeologists uncover more than 300 gold coins from late imperial period from theatre in Como, Italy
• Sep 8 Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 death sentences for 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya square

• Sep 9 Arirang Mass Games begins in North Korea to mark country's 70th anniversary featuring tens of thousands performing
• Sep 9 CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in "The New Yorker"
• Sep 9 Green Bay Packers start 100th season with historic 24-23 comeback win over Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; first ever Packer recovery from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3)
• Sep 9 Nia Franklin representing New York crowned Miss America 2019, first competition without a swimsuit section
• Sep 9 Russian police detain over 1000 people amid nationwide protests against pension reform
• Sep 9 Swedish General Election: no party wins a majority with far-right Sweden Democrats making gains

• Sep 10 California passes law to commit to carbon-free electricity sources by 2045

• Sep 10 South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation order affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence

• Sep 11 American-backed militia begins final push to oust militants from Hajin, Syria, last area under Islamic State control
• Sep 11 Bus crash in southern Indian state of Telangana kills 53

• Sep 11 James Anderson takes his 564th Test wicket to become the most prolific fast bowler in cricket history as England beats India by 118 runs in the 5th Test at The Oval for a 4-1 series victory; Alistair Cook's final Test
• Sep 11 Russia launches its largest military exercise since 1981 involving 300,000 personal with Chinese troops participating
• Sep 11 Suicide bombing in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, kills 68 and injures 165
• Sep 12 European parliament votes to pursue disciplinary action against Hungary for anti-democratic actions, first ever such vote
• Sep 12 More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany (1946-2014) in leaked report
• Sep 12 Oldest known human drawing discovered, a hashtag-like abstract drawing with red ochre, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in "Nature"

• Sep 13 Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football” Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23; first all-female broadcast booth in NFL history; Andrea Kremer calls game with Hannah Storm

• Sep 13 Nearly 40% (36.6%) of all female suicides occur in India according to report published in "The Lancet"

• Sep 14 Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations
• Sep 14 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane
• Sep 15 Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and remains of 13,000-year-old beer in Haifa cave, Israel, belonging to nomadic Natufian people

• Sep 15 Swimmer killed by shark at Newcomb Hollow Beach, first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts in 80 years
• Sep 15 Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong), category 5 strength, makes landfall in Cagayan province, Philippines, killing at least 100
• Sep 16 "Green Book" wins People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival
• Sep 16 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• Sep 16 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: At age 40, American Angela Stanford wins her first major title by 1 stroke from Amy Olson, Austin Ernst, Mo Martin & Kim Sei-young
• Sep 16 First ever performance of comedy "Love's Victory" by Lady Mary Wroth at Penshurst Place, England, 400 years after it was written

• Sep 16 Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and wife Lynne Benioff announce purchase of Time magazine for $190 million
• Sep 16 Scott Dixon of New Zealand finishes second in the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma to wrap up his 5th IndyCar Drivers' title for Chip Ganassi Racing; Honda wins Manufacturers' Cup; Canadian Robert Wickens is Rookie of the Year
• Sep 16 Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall near Jiangmen City, China, winds 120 miles an hour cause tower blocks in nearby Hong Kong to sway

• Sep 17 50 girls treated in hospital in Kaya, Burkina Faso after illegal botched circumcisions
• Sep 17 Flooding in Nigeria kills over 100 people as Benue and Niger Rivers overflow
• Sep 17 Hurricane Florence has caused 900 people to be rescued from flooding, death toll at 23, city of Wilmington isolated officials announce
• Sep 17 Needles purposely hidden in strawberries in Australia prompt government to order an investigation
• Sep 17 US border control agent confesses to the murder of four women and assault of another in Laredo, Texas

• Sep 18 Amnesty International says 400 civilians have been killed in conflicts between Cameroon soldiers and Anglophone separatists in 2018
• Sep 18 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
• Sep 18 South Africa's Constitutional court legalizes cannabis use by adults in private places
• Sep 19 Korean joint summit in Pyongyang agrees to limit North Korea's weapons programme and to South Korea economic cooperation
• Sep 20 EU leaders, including Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron, criticize Theresa May's Brexit plan at a summit in Salzburg, Austria
• Sep 20 Overloaded ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, killing at least 207, with one man surviving in air lock for two days
• Sep 20 Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland
• Sep 21 American singer-songwriter Paul Simon closes his "Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour" at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NYC
• Sep 21 Fossil of Dickinsonia, “the Holy Grail of palaeontology” proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old from White Sea, Russia

• Sep 22 Four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians

• Sep 23 Japan's space agency is the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft

• Sep 23 Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 300m (980ft) high, near Baku, Azerbaijan

• Sep 24 Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Sep 29 American "The Hardy Boys" actor Parker Stevenson (66) weds American celebrity chef Lisa Schoen (33) at Demetria Vineyards in Los Olivos, California

• Sep 2 Conway Savage, Australian piano and organ player (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), dies from a brain tumor at 58 [1]
• Sep 4 Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie - "Roger"; The Bob Newhart Show - "Howard"), dies at 91
• Sep 5 Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist, dies at 87
• Sep 6 Alan Oakman, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; Sussex CCC), dies at 88

• Sep 6 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (I Solisti Veneti), dies at 83
• Sep 6 Diane Leather, British athlete (first woman to run sub-5 minute mile), dies of a stroke at 85
• Sep 6 Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance), dies at 92

• Sep 7 Mac Miller [Malcolm McCormick], American rapper and music producer (Best Day Ever), dies of a drug overdose at 26
• Sep 7 Mickey Stratton, American National Softball HOF catcher (All World Team 1965; 5 x All American), dies at 80
• Sep 8 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario, dies at 87
• Sep 10 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, South African army general (Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985-90; Chief of the Army, 1980-85), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 84
• Sep 11 Don Panoz, American pharmaceutical entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS - American Le Mans Series), dies at 83
• Sep 11 Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films), dies at 90
• Sep 11 Jim Houston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker (Ohio State; Pro Bowl 1964-65, 69-70; Cleveland Browns), dies of dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
• Sep 13 Ivo Petric, Slovenian composer, dies at 86
• Sep 15 Dudley Sutton, British stage and screen actor (Leather Boys; Brimstone & Treacle; Lovejoy - "Tinker Dill"), dies of cancer at 85
• Sep 15 Jeff Lowe, American mountain climber (co-founder Lowe Alpine), dies of pneumonia at 67
• Sep 16 Big Jay [Cecil James] McNeely, American R&B saxophonist, dies of prostate cancer at 91
• Sep 16 Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young), dies at 79
• Sep 18 Judith Kazantzis, English poet and feminist, dies at 78
• Sep 18 Robert Venturi, American architect (Vanna Venturi House) and theorist (inspired Postmodernism), dies at 93 [1]
• Sep 19 Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer (New York City Ballet, 1955-66), choreographer, and founder of Dance Theater of Harlem (1968), dies of renal failure at 84
• Sep 19 Louis Blom-Cooper, British barrister specializing in public and administrative law and co-editor of "The Judicial House of Lords 1876–2009", dies at 92
• Sep 19 Marilyn Lloyd, American politician (Rep-D-TN, 1975-95), dies at 89
• Sep 20 John Cunliffe, British children's book author and television presenter (Postman Pat; Rosie and Jim), dies of cardio-pulmonary failure at 85
• Sep 21 José Luis de Delás, Spanish composer and conductor, dies at 90
• Sep 21 Katherine Hoover, American flautist, composer (Eleni: A Greek Tragedy), teacher, and conductor, dies at 80
• Sep 22 Charles "Chas" Hodges, English musician (Chas & Dave), dies at 74
• Sep 27 Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), dies at 76
• Sep 28 Don Chargin, American boxing promoter (IBHOF; Bobby Chacon, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez, Loreto Garza), dies from brain cancer at 90
• Sep 28 Koos Alberts [Jacobus Krommenhoek], Dutch folk and pop singer (Many More Years; Life Goes On), dies of bladder cancer at 71
• Sep 29 James "Big Jim" Wright, American Grammy and Dove Award-winning keyboardist, composer, arranger, and record producer (Sound of Blackness; Mariah Carey), dies at 52
• Sep 29 Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
• Sep 30 Geoffrey Hayes, British TV presenter and actor (Rainbow, Z-Cars), dies at 76