Daily Calendar for December 18th, 2018

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• International Migrants Day

1680s

• 1680: The Great Comet reached perihelion

1780s

• 1787: New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution

1830s

• 1839: John William Draper took the first photo of the Moon

1860s

• Born 1860: Edward MacDowell (composer)

• 1865: The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting slavery, went into effect

1880s

• Born 1886: Ty Cobb (baseball player)

1890s

• 1895: National Anti-Saloon League was founded

1910s

• 1915: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson married Edith B. Galt, a descendent of Pocahontas

• Born 1916: Betty Grable (actress)

1930s

• 1932: Civil rights activist Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks

1940s

• Born 1946: Steven Spielberg (director)

1960s

• Born 1963: Brad Pitt (actor)

1970s

• Born 1978: Katie Holmes (actress)

1980s

• Born 1980: Christina Aguilera (singer)

1990s

• Died 1997: Chris Farley (actor)

2000s

• 2005: Giant panda, Basi, celebrated her 25th birthday at China's Fuzhou Zoo. (She far surpassed the normal panda life expectancy of 12 years!)

• Died 2006: Joe Barbera (half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that made cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, and the Flintstones)

• Died 2008: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (actress and producer)

• Died 2009: Connie Hines (actress)

2010s

• Died 2016: Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress and socialite)