Today in History

September 18

1932 - King Ibn Saud unifies the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd under the name Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1955 - Hurricane Hilda strikes in the central and northern Gulf Coast area of Mexico killing 166 people.

1961 - United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a mysterious plane crash in Africa.

2005 - Afghans cast their ballots in the country’s first parliamentary election in over 30 years.

2008 - Somchai Wongsawat is inaugurated as Thailand’s Prime Minister. 2013 - A double-decker bus collides with a passenger train in Ottawa, Canada, ripping off the front of the bus and killing six people.

2015 - Taliban gunmen attack Pakistan air force base in Badaber near Peshawar, killing 42 people.