1. 1787: New Jersey became the third state to ratify the United States Constitution.
2. 1865: Slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
3. 1912: The Piltdown Man, later exposed as a hoax, was "discovered" in the Piltdown Quarry in England. It was believed to be a missing link in human evolution.
4. 1944: The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans in the case of Korematsu v. United States.
5. 1972: The United States resumed heavy bombing of North Vietnam after a 12-day break in the Paris Peace Talks.
6. 1997: HTML 4.0, the fourth revision of the HTML standard, was published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
7. 2010: The Arab Spring uprisings began in Tunisia with the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, sparking widespread protests and revolutions across the Arab world.
8. 2015: The Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted by 196 countries during the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (COP21).
These are just a few examples, and many other significant events may have occurred on December 18 throughout history.
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