Today in History - History - October 18th

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

1970Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic

1926Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

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

1974Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks

1962JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko

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

1942Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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