Today in History - History - October 18th

1977Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record

1962Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"

2009QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter

1946Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres

2007After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.

1970Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic

1775African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.

1962Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1855Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres

1926Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

1939Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, Louisiana, assassin (JFK), (d. 1963)

1960Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)

1935Peter Boyle, Norristown Pennsylvania, American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond)

1956Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)

1939Mike Ditka, Carnegie Pennsylvania, NFL coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)

1919Pierre Trudeau, Montreal Quebec, 15th Prime Minister of Canada

2008Tennis player Michael Chang (35) weds fellow tennis player Amber Liu (24) at Lake Hills Community Church in Laguna Hills, California

1869Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (49) weds his mistress Rosa Vercellana (36) in Italy

1986"Fleetwood Mac" member Christine McVie (43) weds keyboardist Eduardo Quintela

1970Actor Lee Marvin (46) weds radio producer Pamela Marvin (40)

1931Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84

1982Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97