18th oct history... 707 - John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope 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 Churchs foundations down to bedrock. 1016 - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) 1081 - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine 1267 - Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III 1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland. 1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg 1534 - New pursuit of French protestants 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts. 1564 - John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America 1572 - Spanish troops attack Maastricht 1622 - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier 1648 - 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers) 1667 - English fleet plunders Suriname plantations 1672 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz 1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants 1685 - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism 1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession 1752 - Premiere of Rousseaus opera Le Devin du Village The Sun King Louis XIVThe Sun King Louis XIV 1767 - Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. 1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders cock tail 1776 - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx 1855 - Franz Liszts Prometheus, premieres 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. 1862 - Morgans raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY 1863 - Battle of Charlestown, WV 1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1869 - Henrik Ibsens De Unges Forbund, premieres in Christiania (Oslo) 1873 - 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers 1873 - Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football 1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household use 1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure A Case of Identity (BG) 1889 - 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA) Composer/Pianist Franz LisztComposer/Pianist Franz Liszt 1890 - John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1891 - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins 1892 - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) 1898 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico 1901 - Belgiums Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights 1904 - Gustav Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne 1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1909 - Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1910 - Edward Forster publishes Howards End 1912 - Beginning of 1st Balkan War - Balkan League vs. Ottoman Empire 1912 - Italo-Turkish war ends 1913 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave 1914 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. 1915 - 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo 1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire 1918 - NHLs Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn 1918 - Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1922 - British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation - Auntie BBC) incorporated 1924 - Harold Red Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) 1924 - Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) 1925 - -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus 1925 - Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir LeninMarxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin 1926 - Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament 1929 - Women are considered Persons under Canadian law. 1930 - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day 1932 - Belgium government of Renkin falls 1934 - Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March 1939 - R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts Too Many Girls, premieres in NYC 1940 - Kaufman & Harts George Washington Slept Here, premieres in NYC 1941 - Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1942 - Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed 1943 - US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island 1944 - Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussels 1944 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II 1945 - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg 1945 - Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements 1946 - Aaron Coplands 3rd Symphony premieres Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1948 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army 1950 - Connie Mack retires as manager of As after 50 years 1951 - USSR performs nuclear test 1952 - Buttrio Square closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs 1952 - Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash 1953 - WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1953 - WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times 1954 - Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US 1954 - WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC) 1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio. 1955 - Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete 1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton 1960 - Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) Baseball Legend Connie MackBaseball Legend Connie Mack 1960 - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News 1961 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack 1962 - JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record Lets Dance 1962 - US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1963 - IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics 1964 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 1966 - Apple Tree opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances 1967 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe 1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus 1967 - Walt Disneys Jungle Book is released 1967 - AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams 1968 - Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City Singer-songwriter Tony SheridanSinger-songwriter Tony Sheridan 1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas 1968 - John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession 1968 - Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash 1968 - Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yokos apt 1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving black power salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners 1969 - Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession 1969 - Rod Stewart joins Small Faces 1969 - Soyuz 8 returns to Earth 1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic 1970 - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp 1973 - Raisin opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances 1973 - Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin 1973 - Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical Raisin, premieres in NYC 1973 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief Singer Rod StewartSinger Rod Stewart 1974 - 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 1974 - Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam 1974 - Wings (Country Hams) release Walking in the Park with Eloise 1974 - Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks 1975 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live, sing My Little Town 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1976 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1977 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Reschs 15th 1977 - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games 1977 - W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruths series record 1977 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years 1978 - 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance 1978 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings 1979 - Beatlemania opens in London 1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1980 - Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA 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 Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 - Israels supreme court upholds ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist 1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1989 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns 1989 - Hungary revises constitution 1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit 1990 - Once on this Island opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances 1991 - Most Happy Fella closes at NY State Theater NYC 1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1992 - Oba Oba 93 closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances 1992 - 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 1992 - 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities 1992 - Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683 1992 - Start of Zimbabwes 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 1998 - Samsung World Championship of Womens Golf 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. Pakistani Politican Benazir BhuttoPakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto 2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhuttos convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured. 2011 - Gilad Shalit is released. 2012 - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan 2012 - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
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