Today in History - History - October 18th

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

1970Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic

1685French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

1950Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years

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.

1926Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

1962JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko

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

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

1775African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1926Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou

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

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

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

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