December 18

December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
• 1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Lexington, General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union force under Colonel Robert Ingersoll.
• 1916 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French and suffer 337,000 casualties.
• 1941 - Japanese Army lands on Hong Kong Island.
• 1944 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
• 1944 - World War II: 101st Airborne Division was moved by truck to the Bastogne area.
• 1961 - Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

Births

• 1507 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
• 1825 - Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876)
• 1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)

Deaths

• 1787 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral (b. 1724)

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