TODAY in HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 18

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 18

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1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman and Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in what was then Northern Rhodesia.

1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright whose works included "Juno and the Paycock" (1924), died. He was 80.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix, U.S. rock singer and guitarist, died of a drug overdose aged 27.

1981 - The French parliament voted to abolish capital punishment and the guillotine.

1982 - Lebanese Christian militias ended a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut, in which at least 800 were killed.

2000 - Ivory Coast's military ruler, General Robert Guei, escaped an assassination attempt at his residence. Two of his bodyguards were killed.

2001 - Iranians hold vigil to mourn victims of Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

2004 - Iraq's national carrier Iraqi Airways resumed international flights after 14 years of being grounded.

2005 – Angry crowds in Basra, Iraq attack a British tank with petrol bombs and rocks.

2005 - Voters in Afghanistan braved threats from Taliban to vote in their first legislative elections in decades.

2014 - Scotland votes against leaving the UK in referendum on independence.