This day in history

September 18

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

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.

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