On This Day: September 18th

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.