Historical timeline for September 18

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.

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

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

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.

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.

A fuel leak from a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at a USAF base near Damascus, Arkansas, results in an explosion in a missile silo, killing one person and injuring 21 others.

Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.

The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television.

The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark takes place in Athens.

Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.