18 October
The 18t o October is the 291t day o the year (292t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 74 days bidin.
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Events
- 1016 - The Dens defeat the Saxons in the Battle o Assandun, givin them control ower maist o Ingland.
- 1356 - Basel, Swisserland, is destroyed bi a yirdquauk.
- 1685 - Louis XIV o Fraunce abandons the Edict o Nantes, causin mony Huguenots tae flee the kintra.
- 1818 - The Varsity o Bonn is foondit.
- 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published.
- 1867 - Alaska is offeecially transferred frae Roushie tae the Unitit States.
- 1906 - A major fire destroys twa prominent biggins in Akureyri, Iceland.
- 1922 - The BBC is foondit.
- 1967 - The Soviet Union's Venera 4 probe sends the first foto frae unner the atmosphere on Venus.
- 1977 - German Hairst: Murther o German businessman Hanns-Martin Schleyer an alleged suicides o fower Reid Airmy Faction members.
- 1989 - Erich Honecker resigns as leader o East Germany.
- 1989 - The Galileo spacecraft is launched tae Jupiter.
- 1991 - Azerbaijan declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
- 2007 - A bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan kills 139 fowk.
- 2011 - Israeli sodger Gilad Shalit is released bi Palestinian captors in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian preesoners bein released bi Israel.
- 2015 - Scotland are controversially knockit oot o the 2015 Rugby Warld Cup in Ingland wi a nairrae defeat tae Australie.
- 2019 - At least 62 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
- 2019 - Jessica Meir an Christina Koch perform the first aw-female spacewalk.
Births
- 1405 - Pape Pius II (d. 1464)
- 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
- 1804 - Mongkut, Keeng o Siam (d. 1868)
- 1831 - Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
- 1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher an theologian (d. 1931)
- 1898 - Lotte Lenya, Austrick sangster (d. 1981)
- 1905 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Preses o Ivory Coast (d. 1993)
- 1905 - Sammy Black, Scots fitbawer (d. 1977)
- 1919 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 2000)
- 1925 - Ramiz Alia, Preses o Albanie (d. 2011)
- 1926 - Chuck Berry, American muisicker an componer (d. 2017)
- 1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
- 1927 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Flora Fraser, 21st Leddy Saltoun, Scots peer
- 1938 - Ronnie Shade, Scots gowfer (d. 1986)
- 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin o John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
- 1945 - Sam Galbraith, Scots politeecian (d. 2014)
- 1945 - Huell Howser, American enterteener (d. 2013)
- 1950 - Om Puri, Indie actor (d. 2017)
- 1956 - Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player
- 1959 - Mauricio Funes, umwhile Preses o El Salvador
- 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
- 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American muisicker an componer
- 1967 - Finlay Carson, Scots politeecian
- 1968 - Michael Stich, German tennis player
- 1979 - Ne-Yo, American sangster
- 1984 - Freida Pinto, Indie actress
- 1984 - Lindsey Vonn, American skier
- 1987 - Zac Efron, American sangster an actor
- 1994 - John McGinn, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1417 - Pape Gregory XII (b. 1326)
- 1503 - Pape Pius III (b. 1439)
- 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen o Scots (b. 1489)
- 1578 - Ferdinand, Prince o Asturies (b. 1571)
- 1865 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscoont Palmerston, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1784)
- 1869 - William Brand, Scots soleecitor, banker, botanist an plant collector (b. 1807)
- 1871 - Charles Babbage, Inglis inventor (b. 1791)
- 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
- 1921 - Ludwig III o Bavarie (b. 1845)
- 1930 - Alexander Munro MacRobert, Scots lawer an politeecan (b. 1873)
- 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
- 1939 - Henry Halcro Johnston, Scots botanist, medicinar an rugby union player (b. 1856)
- 1948 - Margaret Hasluck, Scots geografer, linguist, epigrafer, airchaeologist an scholart (b. 1885)
- 1977 - Hanns-Martin Schleyer, German businessman (b. 1915)
- 2013 - Charlie Dickson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)
Halidays
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