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Sports
On this day – September 18 – in 1997, cricketer Sourav Ganguly recorded his best One Dday International (ODI) bowling figures. The former Indian cricket team captain took 5 wickets for 16 runs against Pakistan in Toronto.
Ganguly has taken 100 wickets in ODIs.
Space
In 1977, Voyager I took the first photo of Earth and the Moon together and it was taken from a distance of 7.25 million miles. It was the first image to include both the Earth and the Moon in a single frame taken by a spacecraft.
Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo, a Cuban, also became the first black to be sent on a mission in space on this date in 1980.
World
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Congo in 1961.
Bollywood
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi was born in 1950 on this date.