October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. Once referred to as Seward's Folly, the usefulness of the purchase soon became apparent.
1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain following the Spanish-American War.
1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the "liberation" of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from German-born Jewish physicist Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, proven after the fall of the Soviet Union. Although he received a far more lenient sentence than Jews Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (who were executed), Klaus Fuchs provided information to the Soviets which was of considerably greater significance.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by theArgentine Congress. Eva Perón was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
2007 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttokills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
2007 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttokills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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