2018 in the United States
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This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Donald Trump (R-New York)
- Vice President: Mike Pence (R-Indiana)
- Chief Justice: John Roberts (New York)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)
- Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)
- Congress: 115th
Events
January
- January 1
- The 2018 North American cold wave takes place, with record low temperatures in the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Times Square in New York City has a temperature of 9 degrees Fahrenheit, with -4 degrees Fahrenheit wind chill,[1] in addition to Omaha having a temperature of -15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9.44 Celsius) on December 30, 2017, lower than the previous record set in 1884.[2]
- Retail sale of marijuana begins in California, the largest U.S. state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.[3]
- January 3 – President Donald Trump boasts on Twitter that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's.[4]
- January 6 – The 2017–18 United States flu season causes dozens of deaths.[5]
- January 8 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that 2017 was the costliest year on record for climate and weather-related disasters in the United States.[6][7]
- January 9 – The 2018 Southern California landslides occur, killing at least 13 people, and injuring 25. The main damage occurs in Montecito, California, which was nearly burned by the Thomas Fire a month prior.
- January 10 – The city council of Washington, D.C., renames the street outside Russia's embassy after Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin who was shot dead outside the Kremlin.[8]
- January 11 – During a meeting with lawmakers about immigration, President Trump is reported to have asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”[9][10] His remarks are condemned as "racist" and "shocking" by a UN spokesman.[11] (comp. Donald Trump racial views) The government of Botswana demands a clarification,[12] and Ambassador Earl R. Miller is asked if the USDS regards Botswana as a "shithole" country.[13] The event is termed by many media outlets "Shitholegate".[14]
- January 12 – A Baltimore woman who was a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center is taken outside and left by hospital employees in freezing temperatures wearing nothing but her hospital gown and socks. She is stranded until bystander Imanu Baraka calls 911.[15]
- January 13 – The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sends a false alarm warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack, causing widespread panic across the state.[16]
- January 15 – Police in California arrest a couple, 57-year-old computer engineer at Northrop Grumman David Allen Turpin and his wife, 49-year-old Louise Anna Turpin, who allegedly held their 13 children captive, some chained to beds in the dark.[17]
- January 16
- Democrat Patty Schachtner wins the special election for Wisconsin's 10th Senate District, the same district President Trump won by 17 points.[18]
- A meteor is reported near Michigan that causes a magnitude 2.0 earthquake.[19]
- January 18 – Scotland Yard reveals that U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is being investigated over a third accusation of sexual assault in the UK, from 2005.[20]
- January 20 – Senate Democrats block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February and the government shutdown of 2018 begins.[21]
- January 22 – Amazon opens the first Amazon Go store to the public, the first completely cashier-less grocery store, located in Seattle.[22][23][24]
- January 23 – A tsunami alert is triggered after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake is recorded off the southern Alaskan coast.[25]
- January 24
- Disgraced Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar receives a prison sentence of up to 175 years after testimony from nearly 160 of his victims.[26]
- President Trump attends the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.
President Donald J. Trump arrives at Zurich Airport Thursday, January 25, 2018, in Zurich, Switzerland, and proceeds to Marine One traveling to Davos, Switzerland over the Swiss Alps.
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State of the Union 2018
- January 30 – President Trump gives his first State of the Union Address.[27] 75 percent of State of the Union viewers approved of Trump's address.[28]
February
- February 2 – President Trump approves the release of a controversial Republican memo accusing the FBI of abusing its powers during the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling of US elections.[29]
- February 4 – The Philadelphia Eagles win their first Super Bowl in franchise history by defeating the New England Patriots, 41-33, in Super Bowl LII, ending a 57-year championship drought.[30]
- February 5 – The Dow Jones share index closes down 4.6%, its biggest drop since the 2008 financial crisis.[31]
- February 6 – SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center.[32]
- February 9–February 25 – The United States compete at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and win 9 gold, 8 silver, and 6 bronze medals.[33]
- February 14 – A mass shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resulting in 17 deaths.[34] It is the deadliest high school shooting in the United States, surpassing the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
- February 16 – Special Counsel Robert Mueller announces that 13 Russians have been charged with interfering in the 2016 Presidential election.[35]
- February 18 – In Stock Car racing, Austin Dillon wins the 60th running of the Daytona 500. Darrell Wallace Jr. finishes 2nd highest finish for an African-American in the Daytona 500.
- February 22 – Teachers and other education personnel in West Virginia go on the first ever statewide strike in state history.[36]
- February 23
- President Trump announces a plan for the largest ever package of sanctions against North Korea, aimed at cutting off revenue for its nuclear program.[37]
- President Trump's former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, admits charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in a plea deal.[38]
- February 24 – Paul Manafort is indicted with five federal criminal charges including money laundering and foreign lobbying violations.[39]
- February 25 – In the wake of concerns about gun control, a number of major companies announce they are severing ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) – including Alamo, Allied Van Lines, Avis, Budget, Delta, Enterprise, First National Bank of Omaha, Hertz, MetLife, National, SimpliSafe, Symantec, Teladoc, and United.
March
- March 1 – President Trump announces tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.[40]
- March 2 – A huge windstorm strikes Maryland , Virginia and Washington DC. Closing bridges,causes thousands of power outages,closes schools and topples trees.
- March 4 – The Shape of Water wins Best Picture in the 90th Academy Awards. Additionally, Guillermo del Toro wins Best Director for The Shape of Water and Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour.[41]
- March 5
- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century.[42]
- March 6 – Gary Cohn, a top economic adviser to President Trump, is reported to be resigning his position.[43][44]
- March 7
- Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who alleges she had an affair with President Trump, files a lawsuit against him alleging that a nondisclosure contract she signed is invalid.[45]
- Florida passes a law by 67-50 votes to raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[46]
- March 9
- President Trump accepts an invite from Kim Jong-un through South Korean officials for a meeting by May.[47]
- Former drug firm executive Martin Shkreli is sentenced to seven years in federal prison for defrauding investors.[48]
- March 13 – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired (effective March 31) by President Trump. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is nominated to replace him.[49]
- March 14
- Democrat Conor Lamb wins the 2018 special Congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, previously considered a safe seat for Republicans.[50][51]
- The Senate passes, by 67 to 31, a bill to reform the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a set of post-financial crisis rules.[52][53]
- President Trump appoints Larry Kudlow to be Director of the National Economic Council, succeeding Gary Cohn.[54]
- March 15 – A pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida International University, resulting in several fatalities.[55]
- March 16
- Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is dismissed for "lack of candor" days before he was due to retire with pension rights. McCabe denies the claims and insists he was targeted because of his involvement in the Russia inquiry.[56]
- Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, a data firm accused of mishandling Facebook user profiles.[57]
- March 19
- Uber suspends all of its self-driving cars worldwide after a woman is killed by one of the vehicles in Tempe, Arizona.[58]
- British TV station, Channel 4, airs a documentary about Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis company that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Undercover reporters, talking to executives from the firm, discover the use of bribes, honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world.[59][60]
- California residents are ordered to evacuate ahead of a storm described as an "atmospheric river".[61]
- March 20 – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg receives a formal request from the British government to answer questions regarding Cambridge Analytica and the "catastrophic failure of process" behind the data breach.[62][63]
- March 21 – It is reported that the Opioid epidemic may be worse than previously thought due to omissions on death certificates.[64][65]
- March 22
- President Trump announces tariffs on up to $60bn in Chinese goods and plans to limit the country's investment in the US. The Dow Jones falls sharply in response.[66]
- President Trump replaces his National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster with former United Nations ambassador John Bolton.[67]
- March 25
- Advocates warn that Congress needs to devote more money to address the growing opioid epidemic.[68]
- March 26 – President Trump orders the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats following the ex-spy poisoning case in the UK.[69]
- March 28 – At least 12 states are reported to be suing the Trump administration over inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.[70]
- March 29
- Russia announces it will expel 60 US diplomats and close the US Consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation for the US expelling 60 Russian diplomats.[71]
- President Trump nominates Ronny Jackson, current physician to the President, to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.[72]
- Mark Zuckerberg disavows a 2016 memo on Facebook's expansion plans, saying in a statement that Andrew Bosworth “is a talented leader who says many provocative things. This was one that most people at Facebook including myself disagreed with strongly. We've never believed the ends justify the means.”[73]
April
- April 3 – Three people suffer gunshot wounds when a female shooter, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, attacks the YouTube headquarters in California, before shooting herself dead.[74]
- April 4
- China announces 25% tariffs on 106 US Products, including cars and soybeans.[75]
- Thousands of people gather in Memphis, Tennessee, to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination.[76]
- April 6 – The Trump administration imposes sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 senior government officials, accusing them of "malign activity around the globe".[77]
- April 9 – The FBI raids the home, office and hotel room of President Trump's long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, pursuant to a federal search warrant.[78]
- April 10 – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned in a joint session of several US senate committees, after the revelation that 87 million people had their private information accessed by Cambridge Analytica.[79]
- April 11 – House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan announces that he will not run for re-election in November.[80]
- April 13 – President Trump orders targeted strikes in Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack.[81]
- April 17 – Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, a Boeing 737-700 suffers an engine failure at cruise altitude, debris enters the fuselage causing substantial damage to the aircraft and loss of cabin pressure and diverts at Philadelphia International Airport. One passenger dies and seven are injured.[82]
- April 19 – Jim Bridenstine is confirmed as the next NASA administrator.
- April 20 – Smallville actress Allison Mack appears in court on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.[83]
- April 22 – Four people are killed at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, when a naked gunman shoots them with a semi-automatic rifle before fleeing on foot.[84] The gunman is captured the next day after a manhunt.
- April 23 – French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the U.S. for a three-day visit, during which he meets President Trump and makes a speech to Congress.[85][86]
- April 24 – Joseph James DeAngelo, a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, is apprehended after law enforcement matched his DNA to the serial rapist and murder.[87]
- April 26
- TV star Bill Cosby is found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.[88][89][90]
- CIA Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate.[91]
- Veteran TV anchor Tom Brokaw is accused of sexual harassment by a former NBC News anchor.[92]
May
- May 1 – A study conducted by health services company Cigna reveals that American adults are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" with nearly half of Americans reporting they sometimes or always feel alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent).[93]
- May 2
- The state of Iowa approves the so-called "heartbeat" bill, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.[94]
- A C-130 military plane crash in Savannah, Georgia kills nine people.[95]
- Following a series of small earthquakes, the USGS warns that the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii could erupt.[96] Two days later it erupts, there are stronger earthquakes and Hawaii declares a state of emergency, evacuating 1,700 residents.[97]
- May 4
- The national unemployment rate hits 3.9 percent, the lowest rate since 2000.[98]
- The Trump administration announces an end to the special Temporary Protected Status program for 57,000 Hondurans.[99]
- May 5
- NASA's InSight spacecraft, designed to study the interior and subsurface of Mars, successfully launches at 11:05 UTC, with an expected arrival on 26 November 2018.[100][101]
- The state of California becomes the world's fifth-largest economy, with the state's GDP surpassing that of the United Kingdom's.[102]
- In horse racing, pre-race favorite Justify wins the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, becoming the first horse since 1882 to win the race while unraced as a two-year-old. The race was run under the wettest conditions in its history; by post time, more than 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) of rain had fallen on race day, breaking a record that had lasted since 1918.[103][104][105]
- May 8
- The Senate Intelligence Committee releases an unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyberattacks in 2016, concluding: "Russian-affiliated cyber actors were able to gain access to restricted elements of election infrastructure. [...] In a small number of states, these cyber actors were in a position to, at a minimum, alter or delete voter registration data; however, they did not appear to be in a position to manipulate individual votes or aggregate vote totals."[106]
- New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns over multiple allegations of assault.[107]
- President Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement.[108] In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a serious mistake".[109]
- The National Centers for Environmental Information reports that April 2018 was the coldest month in the U.S. since 1997.[110][111]
- May 9
- The California Energy Commission introduces its 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, requiring all new homes to be fitted with solar power from 2020. It is the first state in the USA to enact such a law.[112]
- May 10
- At around 2 a.m. local, President Trump ceremoniously greets three freed Korean-Americans, who were detained by North Korea for more than a year for "anti-state activities", on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.[113]
- NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is cancelled by the Trump administration.[114]
- May 11 – U.S. fighter jets intercept two Russian TU-95 bombers in Alaskan airspace.[115]
- May 17 – The Kīlauea shield volcano on the Big Island of the state of Hawaii erupts from its summit, shooting ash 30,000 feet (9,100 m) into the sky.[116]
- May 18 – A school shooting takes place at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Eight students and two teachers are killed and ten other people are injured.
- May 20 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin states that the Trump administration will put its proposed tariffs on Chinese imports “on hold”, averting fears of a trade war between the two countries.[117]
- May 21 – The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upholds a law preventing employees from filing class action lawsuits against their employers over pay and hour disputes.[118]
- May 23 – It is reported that Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump.[119]
- May 24 – Actor Morgan Freeman is accused of sexual harassment by eight women.[120]
- May 25 – Harvey Weinstein is charged with rape and several other counts of sexual abuse involving two separate women after turning himself in to police in New York City.[121]
- May 28 – The Center for the Study of the Drone at New York's Bard College estimates that just over 900 law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and emergency services across the country are now using drones, no longer seen as a novelty by officials.[122]
- May 29
- ABC TV cancels comedian Roseanne Barr's show after she tweets a racist comment, likening Valerie Jarrett to an ape.[123]
- Missouri Governor Eric Greitens announces his resignation (effective June 1) amid a sex scandal.[124]
- May 30
- By a majority of 23–12, the California State Senate votes to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December.[125]
- The FDA approves the first artificial iris.[126]
- May 31 – The Trump administration announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.[127]
June
- June 4
- In a 7-2 decision (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission), the Supreme Court rules in favor of a Colorado baker who, citing the First Amendment's protection of religion, refused to create a customized wedding cake for a homosexual couple.[128]
- June 8 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveils Summit as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, with a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second, or 200 petaflops.[129][130]
- June 8–9 – At the G7 summit in Canada, President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs.[131]
- June 11–12 – In a historic first, President Trump meets with Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore.[132]
- June 14 – The Sand Blaster roller coaster on the Daytona Beach boardwalk derails. Six people are taken to hospital, with two suffering traumatic injuries.[133]
- June 15 – A judge cancels Paul Manafort's bail and orders that he be jailed for alleged witness tampering.[134]
- June 17 – A shooting at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, leaves one person dead and seventeen people injured.[135]
- June 18 – 70 former U.S. Attorneys deliver a letter to Jeff Sessions, urging that he end his “dangerous, expensive, zero tolerance” migrant policy, which separates children at the border, calling it “inconsistent with the values of the institution in which we served.”[136]
- June 19 – The United States announces that it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.[137][138]
- June 21 – Koko, a western Iowland gorilla largely known for having learned to communicate in American Sign Language, dies in her sleep in California.[139]
- June 25
- Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson announces that it will shift some production outside the U.S. as a result of retaliatory tariffs introduced by the European Union.[140]
- Epidiolex, for the treatment of epilepsy, becomes the first drug derived from marijuana to win federal approval.[141][142]
- June 26 – The Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban in a 5-4 decision.[143]
- June 27
- In a landmark 5-4 decision that overturns Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), the Supreme Court rules in Janus v. AFSCME that it is a violation of the First Amendment for public-sector unions to compel non-members to pay fair-share representation fees.
- Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announces that he will retire from the Supreme Court on July 31, prompting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vow that Kennedy's successor will be confirmed by the fall.
- June 28
- The 2018 North American heat wave begins.[144][145]
- 575 women protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are arrested during a demonstration outside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C..[146]
- Five people are killed in a mass shooting in the newsroom of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.[147]
- Mass arrests of Occupy ICE demonstrators are made by Homeland Security agents at an ICE facility in Portland Oregon.[148]
- June 30 – Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate across all 50 U.S. states against family separations carried out by the Trump administration.[149]
July
- July 5 – Scott Pruitt resigns as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, effective July 6. He is replaced by Andrew Wheeler.[150]
- July 6 – U.S. tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.[151][152]
- July 9 – President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh, a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to become an Associate Justice for the Supreme Court of the United States.
- July 11 – President Trump attends the NATO Summit in Brussels.
- July 12 – President Trump arrives in the UK. The four-day visit includes talks with Theresa May, tea with the Queen and a trip to Scotland. There are mass protests in London, featuring a 'Trump baby' blimp flown over Westminster.[153]
- July 13 – Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking during the 2016 election.[154]
- July 16 – President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for private talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki. In a press conference afterwards, Trump praises Russia and Putin, drawing sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats alike.[155] Senator John McCain describes it as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."[156]
- July 18 – In an interview with CBS News, President Trump says he holds Putin personally responsible for interference in the 2016 US election; a sharp contrast to his earlier comments in Helsinki.[157]
- July 19
- The Trump administration proposes limiting habitat protections for endangered species.[158]
- 17 people die after an amphibious "duck boat" capsizes while carrying 31 tourists on Table Rock Lake, Missouri.[159]
- President Trump invites Vladimir Putin to visit America.[160]
- July 20 – The New York Times reports that President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded his client discussing payments to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump.[161]
- July 26
- The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal. More than $109bn is wiped from its market value, the biggest stock market loss in corporate history, which includes a $14.5bn personal loss for founder Mark Zuckerberg.[162]
- Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, claims he is representing three other women who were allegedly paid by Donald Trump, AMI and Michael Cohen to keep quiet.[163]
- July 29 – Wildfires in northern California continue to rage across vast swathes of land, destroying hundreds of structures and causing several deaths.[164]
August
- August 1 – President Trump calls for the Russia investigation to end "right now", urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling, while accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of being "totally conflicted".[165]
- August 2
- The U.S. Department of Commerce proceeds with applying revised tariffs on Canadian newsprint.[166]
- Apple, Inc. becomes the first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, as its share price exceeds a new record high above $207.[167]
- August 5 – President Trump admits that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., attended a meeting at Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign "to get information on an opponent," but insists it was "totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!"[168][169]
- August 6 – The ongoing wildfires in California are officially declared as the largest in the state's history.[170]
- August 7 – The U.S. reimposes sanctions on Iran.[171]
- August 8 – Missouri voters vote against the right-to-work law by 67% to 33%.[172][173][174]
- August 10
- In a landmark case, Monsanto is ordered to pay $289m to 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson, after a jury rules that the company's Roundup weedkiller caused his terminal cancer and that the corporation failed to warn him of the health hazards.[175]
- A Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 is stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with no passengers on board, prompting F15 fighter jets to scramble and intercept. After being contacted by Seattle/Tacoma air traffic control, the plane crashes near Ketron Island in Pierce County, Washington, killing the 29-year-old male pilot.[176][177]
- The Democratic National Committee reverses its ban on accepting donations from the fossil fuel industry.[178]
- August 12
- NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.[179][180][181]
- The Unite the Right 2 rally is held at Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C.. Organized by Jason Kessler to mark the anniversary of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in violence,[182] the rally attracts some 20 to 30 of Kessler's supporters and thousands of counter-demonstrators amid a heavy police presence.[183]
- August 14 – Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore, who was convicted of murder, in the state’s first execution for 21 years and the first by lethal injection.[184]
- August 15 – Former CIA Director John O. Brennan, an outspoken critic of Trump, has his security clearance revoked by the President.[185] The move is criticized as political retribution for Brennan's comments.[186]
- August 21
- Police in Iowa announce they have found a body in Poweshiek County during their investigation into the Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts. They were led to the site by suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an illegal immigrant.[187]
- Michael Cohen, who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until May 2018, pleads guilty to eight charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign.[188]
- Paul Manafort, the former election campaign chairman for Trump, is convicted on eight out of eighteen charges of tax and bank fraud.[188]
- August 22 – Mark Chapman, the man who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon in 1980, is denied parole for a 10th time.[189]
- August 26 – A mass shooting occurs during a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville, Florida, resulting in several fatalities including the perpetrator.[190]
- August 28 – California approves S.B. 100, a proposal to transition the state to 100% emissions-free electricity sources by 2045.[191]
September
- September 5
- In a New York Times editorial, an unnamed senior Trump official writes that members of the administration are working to frustrate parts of the President's agenda to protect the country from his "worst inclinations".[192] Trump responds by calling the anonymous writer "gutless" and the newspaper "phony".[193]
- Hurricane Florence becomes the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.[194][195]
- September 8 – The Cortland Street subway station reopens in Lower Manhattan, 17 years after it was destroyed by the 9/11 attacks.[196]
- September 14 – Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina, with evacuation warnings in place for more than a million people.[197]
- September 15 – NASA launches ICESat-2, the agency's most technologically advanced ice-monitoring spacecraft to date.[198]
- September 16 – Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.[199]
- September 22 – Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify against Brett Kavanaugh the following week.[200]
- September 23 – A second woman comes forward with sexual misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh.[201]
- September 25 – TV star Bill Cosby, 81, is given a three to 10-year jail term for drugging and molesting a woman in 2004. Judge Steven O'Neill designates Cosby a "sexually violent predator", meaning he must undergo counselling for life and be listed on the sex offender registry.[202]
- September 26 – A third woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.[203]
- September 27
- Christine Blasey Ford appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee to give evidence against Brett Kavanaugh.[204]
- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) files a suit in New York alleging securities fraud by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.[205]
October
- October 6
- The Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination by a vote of 50–48, amid controversy over sexual assault claims against him.
- Twenty people are killed in a crash involving a limousine transporting birthday party guests in Schoharie County, New York.[206] It is the deadliest transport crash in the U.S. since Colgan Air Flight 3407, also in New York state, which claimed 50 lives in 2009.[207]
- October 9 – America's ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, a senior Trump cabinet member, resigns unexpectedly.[208]
- October 10 – Hurricane Michael approaches the Florida Panhandle, attaining peak wind speeds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and becoming the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in that region.
Deaths
January
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- January 2 – Thomas S. Monson, religious leader and writer (b. 1927)
- January 5
- Jerry Van Dyke, actor (b. 1931)
- John Young, astronaut (b. 1930)
- January 6
- Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic athlete (b. 1923)
- Thomas Bopp, astronomer (b. 1949)
- January 11 – Edgar Ray Killen, criminal (b. 1925)
- January 13 – Doug Harvey, baseball umpire (b. 1930)
- January 14
- Dan Gurney, racing driver (b. 1931)
- Hugh Wilson, film director and television producer (b. 1943)
- January 15 – Edwin Hawkins, musician (b. 1943)
- January 16
- Jo Jo White, basketball player (b. 1946)
- Bradford Dillman, actor (b. 1930)
- January 18 – Stansfield Turner, admiral and academic (b. 1923)
- January 19 – Dorothy Malone, actress (b. 1925)
- January 21 – Connie Sawyer, actress (b. 1912)
- January 22 – Ursula K. Le Guin, novelist (b. 1929)
- January 24 – Jack Ketchum, author (b. 1946)
- January 26 – Elizabeth Hawley, journalist (b. 1923)
- January 27 – Mort Walker, comic artist (b. 1923)
- January 28 – Gene Sharp, political scientist (b. 1928)
- January 30
- Mark Salling, actor (b. 1982)
- Clyde Scott, football player (b. 1924)
- January 31 – Rasual Butler, basketball player (b. 1979)
February
- February 1
- Cliff Bourland, athlete (b. 1921)
- Dennis Edwards, singer (b. 1943)
- Barys Kit, Belarusian-born rocket scientist (b. 1910)
- February 2 – Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
- February 3 – Michael Harner, anthropologist and author (b. 1929)
- February 4 – John Mahoney, British-born actor (b. 1940)
- February 6 – John Perry Barlow, internet activist, writer and lyricist (b. 1947)
- February 7 – Pat Torpey, drummer (b. 1953)
- February 9
- Reg E. Cathey, actor (b. 1958)
- John Gavin, actor and diplomat (b. 1931)
- February 11 – Vic Damone, singer and actor (b. 1928)
- February 12
- Marty Allen, comedian and actor (b. 1922)
- Daryle Singletary, country music singer (b. 1971)
- February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, actress (b. 1920)
- February 18 – Günter Blobel, Silesian-born Nobel biologist (b. 1936)
- February 21 – Billy Graham, evangelist and Southern Baptist minister (b. 1918)
- February 22 – Nanette Fabray, actress (b. 1920)
- February 24 – Bud Luckey, actor and animator (b. 1934)
March
- March 1 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
- March 3 – Billy Herrington, gay pornographic actor (b. 1969)
- March 7 – Charles Thone, politician, Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983), U.S. Representative (b. 1924)
- March 16 – Louise Slaughter, oldest member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
- March 23
- Debbie Lee Carrington, actress and stuntwoman (b. 1959)[209]
- Zell Miller, politician; Governor of Georgia (1991–1999), U.S. Senator (2000–2005) (b. 1932)
- March 30 – Alias, rapper (b. 1976)
April
- April 1
- Amsale Aberra, Ethiopian-born fashion designer, uterine cancer (b. 1953)[210]
- Bob Beattie, skiing coach (national team) and sports commentator (ABC Sports, ESPN) (b. 1933)[211]
- Steven Bochco, television producer (b. 1943)
- Foster Diebold, academic, President of the University of Alaska system (1977–1979) and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (1979–1996) (b. 1932)[212]
- Robert F. Gatje, architect, stroke (b. 1927)[213]
- Audrey Morris, 89, jazz singer and pianist (b. 1928)[214]
- April 2
- Susan Anspach, 75, actress (Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, Blume in Love), heart failure.[215]
- Clyde Billington Jr., 83, politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1971–1979).[216]
- P. L. Thibaut Brian, 87, chemical engineer.[217]
- Alton Ford, 36, basketball player (Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets), lymphoma.[218]
- Morris Halle, 94, Latvian-born linguist.[219]
- Tuiloma Pule Lameko, 83, Samoan politician.[220]
- Connie Lawn, 73, journalist, longest-serving White House correspondent, Parkinson's disease.[221]
- Bill Rademacher, 75, football player (New York Jets, New England Patriots, Northern Michigan Wildcats).[222]
- Laura Roslof, 69, illustrator (Dungeons & Dragons).[223]
- Burton Smith, 77, computer scientist, complications from heart disease.[224]
- April 6 – Daniel Akaka, educator and politician (b. 1924)
- April 15 – R. Lee Ermey, actor (b. 1944)
- April 17 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (b. 1925)
- April 21 – Verne Troyer, actor (b. 1969)
- April 29 – Larry Harvey, artist and philanthropist (b. 1948)
May
- May 8 – George Deukmejian, politician; Governor of California (1983–1991) (b. 1928)
- May 14 – Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (b. 1930)
- May 21 – Dovey Johnson Roundtree, civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney (b. 1914)[225]
- May 25 – Bill Mallory, 82, football coach (Indiana Hoosiers, Miami RedHawks, Colorado Buffaloes), fall (b. 1935)[226]
- Alan Bean, astronaut (b. 1932)[227]
- Ted Dabney, electrical engineer and co-founder of Atari, Inc, esophageal cancer (b. 1937)[228]
- Herman D. Farrell Jr., politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1975–2017) (b. 1932)[229]
June
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- June 3 – Frank Carlucci, politician (b. 1930)
- June 5 – Kate Spade, fashion designer, suicide (b. 1962)[230]
- June 8 – Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author and television personality, suicide (b. 1956).[231]
- June 10 – Neal E. Boyd, singer (b. 1975)
- June 18 – XXXTentacion, rapper, singer and songwriter, gunshot wound (b. 1998)[232]
- June 19
- June 20 – John Ward, sportscaster (Vol Network) (b. 1930)[234]
- June 21 – Charles Krauthammer, columnist and political commentator (b. 1950)
- June 29 – Steve Ditko, comics artist and writer (b. 1927)
August
- August 6 – Patricia Benoit, television actress and film director, (b. 1927)[235]
- August 16 – Aretha Franklin singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
- August 25 – John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona (b. 1936)[236]
September
- September 1
- Irving Petlin, artist, liver cancer (b. 1934)[237]
- Randy Weston, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926)[238]
- September 2
- Claire Wineland, cystic fibrosis assistance advocate, stroke (b. 1997)[239]
- Fred Zamberletti, athletic trainer (Minnesota Vikings) (b. 1932)[240]
- September 3
- Lydia Clarke, actress (The Atomic City) and photographer, complications from pneumonia (b. 1923)[241]
- Thomas Rickman, screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Hooper, Truman), cancer (b. 1940)[242]
- September 6
- Richard DeVos, salesman and billionaire, co-founder of Amway, complications from infection (b. 1926)[243]
- Burt Reynolds, actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights, Deliverance), Emmy winner (1991), heart attack (b. 1936)[244]
- September 7 – Mac Miller, rapper, singer and producer, drug overdose (b. 1992)[245]
See also
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