Historical timeline for September 18

Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the Constitutional Court.

Toy retail chain Toys "R" Us files for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada.

The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.

Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.

A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.

The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.

Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel.

After 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television broadcasts the final episode of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in American history.

Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.

The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the merger of UPN and The WB.

First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.

Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled.

The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.

General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.

The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rectors of 388 institutions of higher learning, to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna.