December 18

December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 13 days remaining.

Births:

• 1886: [Ty Cobb]? (baseball player)
• 1890: [Edwin Armstrong]?, inventor
• 1904: [George Stevens]? (director)
• 1927: [Ramsey Clark]? (U.S. Attorney General during Lyndon Johnson's presidency)
• 1943: [Keith Richards]? (guitarist)
• 1946: Steven Spielberg (director)
• 1950: [Leonard Maltin]? (movie critic)
• 1955: [Ray Liotta]? (actor)
• 1963: [Brad Pitt]? (actor)

Deaths:

• 821: Theodulf (Bishop of Orleans, France)
• 1995: Konrad Zuse (German engineer and computing pioneer)
• 1998: [Robert Bresson]? (French film director)
• 2001: [[Gilbert Bécaud]] (French singer)

Events:

• 1787: New Jersey is the third state to join the United States.
• 1916: Battle of Verdun

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