Notable Historical Events on October 18th
October 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
707 |
John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1009 |
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. |
1016 |
Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) |
1081 |
Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine |
1267 |
Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III |
1356 |
Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland. |
1386 |
Opening of the University of Heidelberg |
1534 |
New pursuit of French protestants |
1561 |
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima — Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts. |
1564 |
John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America |
1572 |
Spanish troops attack Maastricht |
1622 |
French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier |
1648 |
1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers) |
1667 |
English fleet plunders Suriname plantations |
1672 |
Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz |
1685 |
French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants |
1748 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession |
1752 |
Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" |
1767 |
Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon |
1775 |
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. |
1776 |
In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" |
1776 |
Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx |
1855 |
Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres |
1860 |
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. |
1862 |
Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY |
1863 |
Battle of Charlestown, WV |
1867 |
US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) |
1869 |
Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo) |
1873 |
1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers |
1873 |
Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football |
1878 |
Edison makes electricity available for household use |
1887 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG) |
1889 |
1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA) |
1890 |
John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds |
1891 |
1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins |
1892 |
1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) |
1898 |
American flag raised in Puerto Rico |
1900 |
Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famous for first referring to Germany's need for 'place in the sun' and global empire |
1901 |
Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights |
1904 |
Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne |
1908 |
Belgium annexes Congo Free State |
1909 |
Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
1910 |
E.M. (Edward) Forster publishes "Howards End" |
1912 |
The First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed to Turkey |
1912 |
The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Tripolitan War between Turkey and Italy |
1913 |
Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave |
1914 |
The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. |
1915 |
3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo |
1918 |
Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire |
1918 |
NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn |
1918 |
Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) |
1922 |
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded (later called British Broadcasting Corporation) |
1924 |
Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) |
1924 |
Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) |
1925 |
-20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus |
1925 |
Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season |
1926 |
Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament |
1929 |
Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. |
1930 |
Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day |
1932 |
Belgium government of Renkin falls |
1939 |
R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo |
1942 |
Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed |
1943 |
US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island |
1944 |
Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussels |
1944 |
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II |
1945 |
Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg |
1945 |
Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements |
1946 |
Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres |
1948 |
Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army |
1950 |
Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years |
1951 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1952 |
"Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
1952 |
Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash |
1953 |
WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times |
1954 |
Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US |
1954 |
WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC) |
1954 |
Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio. |
1955 |
Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete |
1955 |
University of California discovers anti-proton |
1960 |
Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) |
1960 |
In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News |
1961 |
Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack |
1961 |
"West Side Story", the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released |
1962 |
JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko |
1962 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance" |
1962 |
US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1962 |
Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA |
1963 |
IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics |
1964 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1966 |
"Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances |
1967 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe |
1967 |
Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus |
1967 |
Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released |
1967 |
AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams |
1968 |
Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City |
1968 |
Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas |
1968 |
John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession |
1968 |
Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash |
1968 |
Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt |
1968 |
US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony |
1969 |
Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners |
1969 |
Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession |
1969 |
Rod Stewart joins Small Faces |
1969 |
Soyuz 8 returns to Earth |
1970 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
1970 |
Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp |
1973 |
"Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances |
1973 |
Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin |
1973 |
Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in NYC |
1973 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief |
1974 |
1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 |
1974 |
Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam |
1974 |
Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" |
1974 |
Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks |
1975 |
Simon & Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live, sing "My Little Town" |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1976 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr |
1977 |
1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th |
1977 |
NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games |
1977 |
W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu |
1977 |
Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record |
1977 |
Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years |
1978 |
1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance |
1978 |
NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings |
1979 |
"Beatlemania" opens in London |
1979 |
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA |
1980 |
Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT) |
1981 |
Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections |
1981 |
NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game |
1981 |
Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader |
1984 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989 |
East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns |
1989 |
Hungary revises constitution |
1989 |
US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit |
1990 |
"Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances |
1991 |
"Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater NYC |
1991 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1992 |
"Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances |
1992 |
1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 |
1992 |
6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities |
1992 |
Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683 |
1992 |
Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare |
1993 |
STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit |
1995 |
NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix |
1998 |
Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf |
2001 |
Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) |
2003 |
Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
2007 |
After 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. |
2009 |
QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter |
2011 |
Gilad Shalit is released. |
2012 |
Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan |
2012 |
Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price |
2013 |
Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria |
2016 |
Coalition warplanes kill 20 Islamic State militants in Syria: Turkish army |
2017 |
Harvey Weinstein resigns from Weinstein Co board |
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