September 18
52: Birth of Marcus Ulpius Trajan, Emperor of Rome from AD 98-117, the third Roman emperor to rule, after Nero (54-68) and Domitian (81-96), who persecuted the Early Church. Apostolic father Ignatius of Antioch was martyred in AD 117during Trajan’s reign.
821: Repose of Theodulph, bishop of Orleans, in a monastery at Angers (Catholic Encyclopedia gives December 18th as his demise date!)
1519: Demise of John Colet, an English scholar, a Catholic reformer, and a friend of Erasmus.
1634: Anne Hutchinson, a Puritan spiritual leader, arrives from England to Boston, Massachusetts, where she  later challenged the puritan authorities and was eventually banished.
1639: Connecticut observes its first annual thanksgiving day as a colony, after a heated debate whether setting aside a specific day would prompt people to neglect thanking God on other days.
1860: The papal force suffers defeat at Castelfidardo, while attempting to defend the papal states from takeover by secular Italian forces.
1884: Demise of Jerry McAuley, the founder of New York’s Water Street Mission, a pioneer movement among American rescue missions.
1895: Booker T. Washington delivers his famous speech “Atlanta Compromise.”
1905: Demise of Scottish clergyman George MacDonald, who wrote novels which convinced C. S. Lewis that true Christianity is not uninteresting.
1924:Â A complete Bible translation of the Old and New Testaments is published by American Bible scholar and historian James Moffatt; he wanted to make a current scholarly understanding of the biblical text in simple language available for the lay reader.
1938: The Church of Constantinople accepts the formerly uniate (i.e. Catholic associated) parishes of North America as a new Orthodox diocese and consecrates Orestes Chornock as their bishop.
1950: Bishop Makarios is elected the Orthodox Archbishop and Ethnarch of Cyprus, who then moved to the front to end British rule in Cyprus and was exiled by the British government. He negotiated a compromise agreement for an independent Cypriot republic in 1959 and was elected the first president of the Republic of Cyprus. Later the Greeks attempted to assassinate him and Turkey invaded the island in 1974, seizing 40% of its territory.
1962: Foundation of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International in Dallas by Gordon Lindsay. Known as Christ for the Nations today, it ministers as a service agency supporting foreign missions through fundraising and distribution of literature.
1964: Congolese rebels loot a missionary hospital at Wasolo, murder its nurses and take missionary doctor Paul Carlson hostage.
1975: For the first time in Chile’s history, its annual Te Deum prayer service commemorating its national independence, is led not by the Roman Catholic Church but by the Methodist Pentecostal Church.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org