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
\n*1016 - Battle of Ashingdon -- Danes defeat Saxons\n*1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts\n*1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which had protected French Protestants\n*1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania completed\n*1808 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State\n*1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska\n*1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico\n*1912 - Beginning of First Balkan War\n*1922 - BBC established\n*1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens\n*1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia\n* 1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
Births
\n*1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)\n*1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (d. 1785)\n*1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)\n*1859 - Henri Bergson, writer (d. 1941)\n*1898 - Lotte Lenya, singer, actress (d. 1981)\n*1898 - Shin'ichi Suzuki, violin player and teacher, creator of the Suzuki method (d. 1998)\n*1902 - Miriam Hopkins, actress (d. 1972)\n*1903 - Lina Radke, German athlete\n*1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru\n*1913 - Evelyn Venable Mohr, actress (d. 1993)\n*1918 - Bobby Troup, musician (d. 1999)\n*1919 - Anita O'Day, jazz singer\n* 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)\n*1920 - Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)\n*1921 - Jesse Helms, Senator from North Carolina\n*1926 - Chuck Berry, musician\n*1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor (d. 1991)\n*1927 - George C. Scott, actor (d. 1999)\n*1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator\n*1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua\n*1934 - Inger Stevens, actress (d. 1970)\n*1935 - Peter Boyle, actor\n*1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, commentator\n*1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (d. 1963)\n*1947 - Joe Morton, actor\n* 1947 - Laura Nyro, singer, songwriter (d. 1997)\n*1948 - Ntozake Shange, author\n*1950 - Om Puri, actor\n* 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, playwright\n*1951 - Terry McMillan, author\n*1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis player\n*1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme\n*1961 - Wynton Marsalis, musician\n*1962 - Vincent Spano, actor
Deaths
\n*707 - Pope John VII\n*1417 - Pope Gregory XII\n*1503 - Pope Pius III\n*1545 - John Taverner, composer\n*1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, composer\n*1871 - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines\n*1893 - Charles Gounod, composer\n*1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria\n*1931 - Thomas Edison, inventor\n*1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete\n*1984 - Jon-Erix Hexum, actor, model\n*2000 - Julie London, singer, actress\n* 2000 - Gwen Verdon, dancer, actress\n*2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician\n*2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut\n*2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
Holidays
\n*Christianity - Feast of Saint Luke\n*Alaska: Alaska Day
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