Top Ten Things That Happened On December 18th

December 18th. That day's been significant for me all of my life. Can you guess why?

The Top Ten

1 PositronWildhawk born (1996)

Happy Birthday, Posthing. So pleased that you liked your present. It was from the heart and carefuljy selected just for you...

PositronWildhawk, How old are you? I love you! Happy Birthday!

I was 17 the day I submitted this list. Yay!

You certainly seem older, Positron!

2 Battle of the Heligoland Bight; First Major Air Battle Of WWII (1939)

Happy birthday, PositronWildhawk! Have a superb time, whatever you do!

3 NASA launches the Terra platform into orbit (1999)

4 Project SCORE, first communications satellite launched (1958)

A date that not everyone remembers. And I think they should.

5 Saturn's moon Epimethius discovered (1966)

6 Steven Spielberg born (1946)

Love this genius's films. Who doesn't?

One classy director, this.

7 First European sight of New Zealand (1642)

8 Keith Richards born (1943)

9 Joseph Stalin born (1878)

10 Piltdown Man discovered (1912)

The Contenders

11 First ever land speed record set at 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) (1898)

12 UAE holds first-ever election (2006)

13 US celebrates first Thanksgiving (1777)

It was before the US made it the 4th Thursday of November. It would have been a pretty long November otherwise!

14 Willy Brandt born (1913)

15 Bridget Mendler Born (1993)

16 Billie Eilish was born (2001)

17 The first Impeachment of Donald Trump (2019)

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