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• Today is Wednesday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2013. There are 104 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 18, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a commission naming Rabbi Jacob Frankel of Rodeph Shalom Congregation in Philadelphia the first Jewish chaplain of the U.S. Army.
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• In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.
• In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
• In 1810, Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain with the formation of a national junta.
• In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a force of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their owners.
• In 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
• In 1931, an explosion in the Chinese city of Mukden damaged a section of Japanese-owned railway track; Japan, blaming Chinese nationalists, invaded Manchuria the next day.
• In 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment, went into effect.
• In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM'-ahr-shoold) was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
• In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.
• In 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• In 1981, a museum honoring former President Gerald R. Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, Mich.
• In 1990, the city of Atlanta was named the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. The organized crime drama "GoodFellas," directed by Martin Scorsese, had its U.S. premiere in New York.
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