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What Happened on October 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
2019	Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.[9]
2007	Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
2003	Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
1992	Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
1991	The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1979	The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1977	German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1967	The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1963	Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
1954	Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1945	The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945	A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945	Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
1944	World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1944	World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
1929	The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1922	The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1921	The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1914	The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
1912	First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1900	Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.
1898	The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1867	United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1860	The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1851	Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1797	Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1779	American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1775	African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1775	American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
1748	Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1648	Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
1630	Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of Frendraught, burns down.
1599	Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1597	King Philip II of Spain send his third and final armada against England, but ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.
1565	Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1561	In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
1540	Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1356	Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1281	Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon[2] for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
1081	The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1016	The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
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.
629	Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
614	King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
320	Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
33	Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.

Famous People Born on October 18

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Year	Name
1936	Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
1931	Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
1952	Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1939	Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2020)
1741	Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1921	Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1906	James Brooks, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1587	Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (d. 1651)
1862	Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
1962	Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist

Famous People Deaths On October 18

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 18. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1893	Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
1948	Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1977	Andreas Baader, German militant (b. 1943)
1931	Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
1561	Yamamoto Kansuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
1886	Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
2008	Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945)
2018	Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931)
1817	Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
1956	Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)