October
18
Independence
Day
Azerbaijan : October 18 1991
World
Vasectomy Day
World Vasectomy Day is an event that was planned by producers
Gabriel Films and Smith&Nasht on October 18, 2013, to raise
global awareness of vasectomy as a solution to prevent unintended
pregnancies. The goal is for doctors all over the world to perform
approximately 1000 vasectomies, connected to the event via Skype
and social media platforms.
Events
320 – Pappus
of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the
sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
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 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle
of Dyrrhachium.
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological
event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy
the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing
Tuskaloosa.
1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army
of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the
first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War
of the Austrian Succession.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now
Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish
the Continental Navy.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege
of Savannah is lifted.
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The
Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of
Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal
treaty.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing
it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the
state as Alaska Day.
1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1912 – First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration
"To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war.
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed
as part of the RSFSR.
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.
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.
1944 – Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
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 then president Isaías Medina Angarita,
who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón
marries actress Eva Perón.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first
season after a six-month run.
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the
first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and
John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during
a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
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.
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration
of independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada,
is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 – Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying
former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and
wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured.
Holidays
and observances
Alaska Day
(Alaska)
Persons Day (Canada)
Christian Feast Day:
Justus of Beauvais
Luke the Evangelist
October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Necktie Day (Croatia)
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