October 18
October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). There are 74 days remaining.
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Events
- 1016 - Battle of Ashingdon -- Danes defeat Saxons
- 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which had protected French Protestants
- 1767 - Mason-Dixon
line, survey separating Maryland
from Pennsylvania
completed
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- 1808 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State
- 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska
- 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico
- 1912 - Beginning of First Balkan War
- 1922 - BBC established
- 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens
- 1944 - Adolf
Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia
- - Soviet
Union invades Czechoslovakia
- - Soviet
Union invades Czechoslovakia
Births
- 1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer († 1785)
- 1741 - Choderlos de Laclos, author († 1803)
- 1859 - Henri Bergson, writer
- 1898 - Lotte Lenya, singer, actress († 1981)
- 1898 - Shin'ichi Suzuki, violin player and teacher, creator of the Suzuki method († 1998)
- 1902 - Mirian Hopkins, actress († 1972)
- 1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru
- 1918 - Bobby Troup, musician († 1999)
- 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada († 2000)
- - Anita O'Day, jazz singer
- 1920 - Melina Mercouri, actress († 1994)
- 1921 - Jesse Helms, Senator from North Carolina
- 1926 - Chuck Berry, musician
- 1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor († 1991)
- 1927 - George C. Scott, actor († 1999)
- 1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
- 1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
- 1934 - Inger Stevens, actress († 1970)
- 1935 - Peter Boyle, actor
- 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, commentator
- 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (†1963)
- 1947 - Laura Nyro, singer, songwriter († 1997)
- - Joe Morton, actor
- 1948 - Ntozake Shange, author
- 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, playwright
- - Om Puri, actor
- 1951 - Terry McMillan, author
- 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis player
- 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme
- 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, musician
- 1962 - Vincent Spano, actor
Deaths
- 707 - Pope John VII
- 1545 - John Taverner, composer
- 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, composer
- 1871 - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines
- 1893 - Charles Gounod, composer
- 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria
- 1931 - Thomas Edison, inventor
- 1984 - Jon-Erix Hexum, actor, model
- 2000 - Gwen Verdon, dancer, actress
- - Julie London, singer, actress
- 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
Holidays
- Christianity - Feast of Saint Luke
- Alaska: Alaska Day
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