October 18th Historical Moments 1016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV 1534 New pursuit of French protestants 1622 French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier 1685 French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes outlaws Protestantism 1767 Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon 1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers 1890 John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) 1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms 1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March 1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed 1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island 1944 Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussel 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg 1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US 1962 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving black power salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1977 W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu 1977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruths series record 1979 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop 1992 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
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