📰📆 — 18 SEPTEMBER
🌎📜 EVENTS
⚔️ 96 — Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after the assassination of Domitian.
🏰 1759 — The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed, ending the British siege of the city during the French and Indian War.
🇧🇷 1850 — The Brazilian Land Law is enacted, regulating private land ownership.
⚔️ 1865 — The Siege of Uruguaiana ends during the Paraguayan War.
🇯🇵 1931 — The Mukden Incident is used by Japan as a pretext to occupy Manchuria.
🇧🇷 1946 — Brazil’s 1946 Constitution is promulgated.
📺 1950 — TV Tupi is inaugurated in São Paulo, the first television broadcaster in Brazil.
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⭐🎂 BIRTHS
👑 53 — Trajan, Roman emperor.
🧮 1752 — Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician.
🔭 1819 — Léon Foucault, French physicist and astronomer.
🦴 1854 — Florentino Ameghino, Argentine naturalist and paleontologist.
🎬 1905 — Greta Garbo, Swedish actress.
⚽ 1976 — Ronaldo Nazário, former Brazilian footballer and businessman.
🤸 1993 — Arthur Nory Mariano, Brazilian gymnast.
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🕊️📜 DEATHS
🧮 1783 — Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist.
📚 1877 — Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian.
🌍 1961 — Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat and Secretary-General of the United Nations.
🎸 1970 — Jimi Hendrix, American musician.
🇧🇷 1987 — Golbery do Couto e Silva, Brazilian general and geopolitician.
📖 2004 — Norman Cantor, Canadian historian.
⚖️ 2020 — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lawyer and justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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🇧🇷🎉 DATES AND EVENTS IN BRAZIL
📺 National Television Day
🇧🇷 National Symbols Day
🎗️ National Day for Awareness and Encouragement of Early Diagnosis of Retinoblastoma
🏙️ Diamantino Anniversary — Mato Grosso
🏙️ Anniversary of Aimorés and Espera Feliz — Minas Gerais
🏙️ Feira de Santana Anniversary — Bahia
🏙️ Boa Ventura de São Roque Anniversary — Paraná
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💭🔥 QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The past teaches us where we came from, the present shows us who we are, but it is through our choices today that we build tomorrow.”
