Historical Events on October 18

October 18 Calendar

Treaty of Montpellier

1622 French King Louis XIII and leader of the Huguenots Duke Henry II of Rohan sign the Treaty of Montpellier ending hostilities

1648 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
1667 English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1672 Treaty of Buchach ends the first phase of the Polish–Ottoman War between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire

Edict of Nantes Revoked

1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle signed, ending War of Austrian Succession
1752 Premiere of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" (The Village Soothsayer), before the royal court at Fontainebleau, France
1767 Boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason–Dixon line is agreed upon

1776 Battle of Pelham: Colonel John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1776 In a bar decorated with bird tail in Elmsford, New York, a customer requests a glassful of “those cock tails” from bartender Betsy Flanagan

Kościuszko Joins Continental Army

1776 Tadeusz Kościuszko receives a commission from US Congress as a colonel of engineers in the Continental Army

1805 45 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women's clubs in America

1860 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1862 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1863 Battle of Charlestown, WV
1863 Boulaq Museum is inaugurated in Cairo with French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as director - the basis of the Egyptian National Museum [1]

1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million

The League of Youth

1869 Henrik Ibsen's play "De Unges Forbund" (The League of Youth) premieres in Christiania (Oslo), Norway

1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
1873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1878 Anti-socialist laws are ratified in Germany
1878 Edison makes electricity available for household use
1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1900 Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famous for first referring to Germany's need for 'place in the sun' and global empire
1901 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights

Mahler's 5th Symphony

1904 Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne, Germany

1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m

Jack Johnson Arrested

1912 Black boxer Jack Johnson arrested for violating the Mann Act for "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, allegedly a prostitute. Later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.

1912 The First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed to Turkey

1912 The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Italo-Turkish War; Italy annexes Libya

1914 Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany
1915 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
1918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1919 Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in round trip of nine days, four hours, 25 minutes and 12 seconds, race costs nine lives with 54 crashes or forced landings

1st Earl Beatty

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

1921 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea

Pop-up Toaster

1921 Charles Strite granted US patent #1,394,450 for his invention, the automatic pop-up toaster

1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation

1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1925 -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus

Lazzeri Hits 60

1925 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season

Lenin's Political Testament

1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

1929 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day

Al Capone Convicted

1931 Gangster Al Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion against him, later fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in jail

1932 Belgium government of Renkin falls
1940 Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here" premieres in NYC
1941 Soviet spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo

Commando Order

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island

1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II

Robeson Wins Spingarn Medal

1945 Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements

Copland's 3rd Symphony

1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony first performance, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky

1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1951 USSR performs nuclear test
1952 Date of the first Mad Magazine issue
1952 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1953 WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Hurricane Hazel becomes most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in US and Canada
1954 Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.
1954 WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)

Jackie Owens Recognized

1955 "Track & Field" magazine names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete

1955 Buganda Agreement between Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda Protectorate, and Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda

Event of Interest

1955 The antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) is discovered at University of California by physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain - wins 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics

The Frank Sinatra Show

1957 "The Frank Sinatra Show" television variety/drama anthology series debuts on ABC; the singer-actor is given almost complete control of the program

Sports History

1960 Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)

1960 In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack

Event of Interest

1961 NY's Museum of Modern Art displays Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" upside down, takes 47 days and 116,000 people before someone notices [1]

Let's Dance

1962 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (later known as The Beatles) record "Let's Dance" in Hamburg, Germany

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses moon
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean

Meeting of Interest

1962 US President John F. Kennedy meets Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko

1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1964 Australian swimmer Kevin Berry sets world record 2:06.6 to beat American Carl Robie by 0.9s and win the men's 200m backstroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

Persona

1966 "Persona", Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, is released

1967 MLB American League votes to allow Kansas City Athletics to move to Oakland, California & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City & Seattle teams - later accelerated to 1969 due to pressure from Kansas City politicians
1967 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe
1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus

The Jungle Book

1967 Walt Disney's animated musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" film is released; cast features voices of Phil Harris, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, and Sebastian Cabot

1968 A rare Australian 1-2 in track & field; Maureen Caird in Olympic record 10.39s beats teammate Pam Kilborn by 0.07s to win the 80m hurdles at the Mexico City Games
1968 American athletes sweep the medals in the men's 400m at the Mexico City Olympics; Lee Evans wins gold in world record 43.86s ahead of Larry James and Ron Freeman
1968 American long jumper Bob Beamon sets an incredible world record (8.90m, 29' 2½") in high altitude at the Mexico City Olympics; 0.55m (22") improvement over previous world record
1968 American swimmer Don Schollander anchors US 4 × 200m freestyle relay team to world record 7:52.1 and the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo; Schollander's 4th gold of the Games
1968 Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world

Music History

1968 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, they are fined £150 for marijuana possession

1968 Polish sprinter Irena Szewińska runs a world record 22.58s to beat Australian Raelene Boyle by 0.16s and win the 200m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

1968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony

1969 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1969 Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession
1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1970 Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
1973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1973 Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief
1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121

Music History

1974 Al Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, dies by suicide at his Memphis home, after assaulting him with a pot of boiling grits

1974 Andre van de Louw appointed Mayor of Rotterdam

Sports History

1974 Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks

1974 Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"

Film & TV History

1975 Simon & Garfunkel reunite on "Saturday Night Live", sing "My Little Town"

1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
1977 NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
1977 West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1977 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
1978 NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1978 US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance

1979 Stage musical "Beatlemania" opens in London
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1980 Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
1981 Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
1981 NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1984 Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51A mission
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

1988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

1989 Hungary revises its constitution after the fall of its Communist regime
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

The Most Happy Fella

1991 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater, NYC, after a limited run by the New York City Opera

1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
1992 Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683
1992 Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1993 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix

2001 Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
2003 Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia

Event of Interest

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2009 British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship

NFL Record

2009 QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter

2011 Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas
2012 Google stock trading suspended after premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price

Film & TV History

2012 Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are honoured for their work with fashion label The Row at the WSJ Magazine's Innovator Of The Year Awards in New York City

2012 Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2013 Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
2015 Rashid Khan makes his One Day International (ODI) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe
2016 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attempts to influence US election

Conference of Interest

2017 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”

2019 1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station
2019 Charges of disorderly conduct officially dropped against participants of the 1939 equal rights protest sit-in at Alexandria (Virginia) Library [1]
2020 Bolivia elects Luis Arce President and his party, Movement for Socialism back into government
2021 Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso declares 60-day state of emergency in response to a violent crime wave caused by power struggle between drug cartels
2021 Flash foods and heavy rain in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and Nepal kill over 100 people after 328mm falls in 24 hrs [1]

2022 American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
2022 Evidence found of lost star catalog by 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus (earliest known attempt to record celestial objects' coordinates with naked eye) found in palimpsest manuscript published by scholars [1]

Event of Interest

2022 The Girl Scouts of the USA announces receipt of donations totaling $84.5 million from American philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

2023 At least 500 Palestinians killed in explosion on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza Strip, with local officials blaming Israeli missile attack and Israelis blaming misfired Palestinian rocket [1]

Greta Thunberg Arrested

2023 Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrested at a demonstration outside an oil conference in London

2023 Power cut to Guinea-Bissau's capital Bissau by Turkish firm Karpowership over a unpaid $15 million bill [1]

Biden Visits Israel

2023 US President Joe Biden makes brief visit to Tel Aviv, Israel in attempt to ease tensions, pledging support for Israel but also urging caution [1]

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Update: 2024-10-16

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