GMT 9/18/2016

This Day In History:

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.

1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.

1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.

1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

2009 – The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.