Independence
day
Azerbaijan
Events
of the day
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.
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 IsaÃas 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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