September 18 in history: • 1796 – War of the First Coalition: General Franz Petrasch's Austrian and Imperial troops stormed the French-held bridgehead over the Rhine river. → go there • 1851 – The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, was founded. → go there • 1961 – An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld. → go there • 1964 – The wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place in Athens. → go there Born 1907: Edwin McMillan Wiki link Born 1936: Ruth Hesse Wiki link Died 2011: Jamey Rodemeyer Wiki link Pictured: Statue of Nerva.