October, 18th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 18, 2005:
The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.

Saturday 18, 2003:
Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

Monday 18, 1993:
Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.

Tuesday 18, 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 executed and various RAF members commit suicide. The German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.

Friday 18, 1974:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.

Saturday 18, 1969:
Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possession of marijuana on Hawaii.

Friday 18, 1968:
A police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's flat finds 168 grains of marijuana. They later plead guilty and are fined £150.

Sunday 18, 1964:
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.

Monday 18, 1954:
Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio

Thursday 18, 1945:
The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Wednesday 18, 1944:
Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

Sunday 18, 1925:
The Grand Ole Opry opens.

Wednesday 18, 1922:
The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) <!-- Not 'Corporation' yet ! --> is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

Friday 18, 1912:
The First Balkan War begins.

Sunday 18, 1908:
Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.

Tuesday 18, 1898:
United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.

Friday 18, 1867:
United States takes possession of Alaska, celebrated annually in the state as (Alaska Day).

Thursday 18, 1860:
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

Saturday 18, 1851:
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

Sunday 18, 1767:
Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed

Friday 18, 1748:
Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

Thursday 18, 1685:
Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants

Wednesday 18, 1561:
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts

Friday 18, 1016:
The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.

Wednesday 18, 1009:
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/18-october/on-this-day.html


People born on October 18

1976:
Azlea Antistia, American actress (b: October 18, 1976) (Biography of Azlea Antistia)

1961:
Wynton Marsalis, American musician (b: October 18, 1961) (Biography of Wynton Marsalis)

1960:
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor (b: October 18, 1960) (Biography of Jean-Claude Van Damme)

1956:
Martina Navratilova, Czech-born tennis player (b: October 18, 1956) (Biography of Martina Navratilova)

1951:
Terry McMillan, American author (b: October 18, 1951) (Biography of Terry McMillan)

1950:
Om Puri, Indian actor (b: October 18, 1950) (Biography of Om Puri)
Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (b: October 18, 1950) (Biography of Wendy Wasserstein)

1949:
George Hendrick, baseball player (b: October 18, 1949) (Biography of George Hendrick)

1948:
Ntozake Shange, American author (b: October 18, 1948) (Biography of Ntozake Shange)

1947:
Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (b: October 18, 1947 ; d: April 9, 1997) (Biography of Laura Nyro)
Joe Morton, American actor (b: October 18, 1947) (Biography of Joe Morton)

1946:
Howard Shore, Canadian film composer (b: October 18, 1946) (Biography of Howard Shore)

1939:
Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator (b: October 18, 1939) (Biography of Mike Ditka)
Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b: October 18, 1939) (Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald)

1935:
Peter Boyle, American actor (b: October 18, 1935) (Biography of Peter Boyle)

1934:
Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b: October 18, 1934 ; d: April 30, 1970) (Biography of Inger Stevens)
Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist (b: October 18, 1934) (Biography of Chuck Swindoll)

1929:
Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua (b: October 18, 1929) (Biography of Violeta Chamorro)

1928:
Keith Jackson, American football commentator (b: October 18, 1928) (Biography of Keith Jackson)
Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician (b: October 18, 1928) (Biography of Buddy MacMaster)

1927:
George C. Scott, American actor (b: October 18, 1927 ; d: September 22, 1999) (Biography of George C. Scott)

1926:
Chuck Berry, American musician (b: October 18, 1926) (Biography of Chuck Berry)
Klaus Kinski, German actor (b: October 18, 1926 ; d: November 23, 1991) (Biography of Klaus Kinski)

1921:
Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (b: October 18, 1921) (Biography of Jesse Helms)

1920:
Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (b: October 18, 1920 ; d: March 6, 1994) (Biography of Melina Mercouri)

1919:
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b: October 18, 1919 ; d: September 28, 2000) (Biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Anita O'Day, American singer (b: October 18, 1919) (Biography of Anita O'Day)

1918:
Bobby Troup, American musician (b: October 18, 1918 ; d: February 7, 1999) (Biography of Bobby Troup)

1913:
Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (b: October 18, 1913) (Biography of Robert Gilruth)

1911:
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru (b: October 18, 1911) (Biography of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

1906:
James Brooks, American painter. (b: October 18, 1906) (Biography of James Brooks)

1903:
Lina Radke, German athlete (b: October 18, 1903 ; d: February 14, 1983) (Biography of Lina Radke)

1902:
Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b: October 18, 1902 ; d: October 9, 1972) (Biography of Miriam Hopkins)

1898:
Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b: October 18, 1898 ; d: November 27, 1981) (Biography of Lotte Lenya)
Shin'ichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist (b: October 18, 1898) (Biography of Shin'ichi Suzuki)

1893:
Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (b: October 18, 1893) (Biography of Georges Ohsawa)

1873:
Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b: October 18, 1873 ; d: April 20, 1951) (Biography of Ivanoe Bonomi)

1859:
Henri Bergson, French writer (b: October 18, 1859 ; d: January 4, 1941) (Biography of Henri Bergson)

1785:
Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b: October 18, 1785) (Biography of Thomas Love Peacock)

1777:
Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b: October 18, 1777 ; d: November 21, 1811) (Biography of Heinrich von Kleist)

1741:
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b: October 18, 1741 ; d: September 5, 1803) (Biography of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

1706:
Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b: October 18, 1706 ; d: January 3, 1785) (Biography of Baldassare Galuppi)

1701:
Charles le Beau, French historian (b: October 18, 1701 ; d: March 13, 1778) (Biography of Charles le Beau)

1679:
Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (b: October 18, 1679) (Biography of Ann Putnam, Jr.)

1668:
John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b: October 18, 1668 ; d: April 27, 1694) (Biography of John George IV, Elector of Saxony)

1662:
Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b: October 18, 1662 ; d: June 22, 1714) (Biography of Matthew Henry)

1653:
Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b: October 18, 1653) (Biography of Abraham van Riebeeck)

1634:
Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b: October 18, 1634 ; d: January 12, 1705) (Biography of Luca Giordano)

1569:
Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b: October 18, 1569 ; d: March 25, 1625) (Biography of Giambattista Marini)

1547:
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b: October 18, 1547 ; d: March 23, 1606) (Biography of Justus Lipsius)

1517:
Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b: October 18, 1517 ; d: October 18, 1570) (Biography of Manoel da Nóbrega)

1405:
Pope Pius II (b: October 18, 1405 ; d: August 14, 1464) (Biography of Pope Pius II)

1127:
Emperor Go-Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (b: October 18, 1127 ; d: April 26, 1192) (Biography of Emperor Go-Shirakawa)

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