On this day: 18 December

Selected events and births on 18 December, from Wikipedia’s “On this day”.

Events

• 1913 – The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released. Read more: The Jew's Christmas Rabbi
• 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League. Read more: Chicago Stadium American football Chicago Bears
• 1958 – The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite. Read more: SCORE (satellite) Communications satellite
• 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit. Read more: Epimetheus (moon) Moons of Saturn Janus (moon)
• 1969 – On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. Read more: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) List of James Bond films George Lazenby
• 1996 – The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect. Read more: Oakland Unified School District African-American Vernacular English and social context African-American Vernacular English
• 2023 – A series of mass protests began in Belgrade, Serbia, alleging electoral irregularities in the Serbian parliament and Belgrade city assembly elections. Read more: 2023 Serbian election protests Belgrade 2023 Serbian parliamentary election

Born on this day

• 1939 – Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Read more: Harold E. Varmus Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1946 – Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks Read more: Steven Spielberg DreamWorks Pictures
• 1972 – Lawrence Wong, Singaporean civilist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Singapore Read more: Lawrence Wong Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1998 – Paola Egonu, Italian volleyball player Read more: Paola Egonu
• 1999 – Dorka Juhász, Hungarian basketball player Read more: Dorka Juhász
• 2000 – Jayden Daniels, American football player Read more: Jayden Daniels
• 2000 – Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer Read more: Korapat Kirdpan
• 2000 – Travon Walker, American football player Read more: Travon Walker
• 2001 – Billie Eilish, American singer Read more: Billie Eilish
• 2001 – Jalen Johnson, American basketball player Read more: Jalen Johnson
• 2002 – Syd Hartha, Filipino singer-songwriter Read more: Syd Hartha
• 2002 – Giuliano Simeone, Argentine footballer Read more: Giuliano Simeone

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