October 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 18. From 1900 until now. October 18 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Zac Efron (1987), Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960) and Catherine Ringer (1957). Several movies were released around October 18 over the years, such as Paths of Glory in 1957 directed by Stanley Kubrick and Office Romance in 1977 directed by Eldar Ryazanov.
But much more happened on October 18 over the years: find out below

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Also see October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
French Republican Calendar - Piment (Chili Pepper) Day, twenty-seventh day in the Month of VendTmiaire
R.C. Church, Anglican communion, et alii - Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist
USA : Alaska: Alaska Day

Events

2018 War in Afghanistan: Afghan general and Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai is assassinated by one of his bodyguards during a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound with U.S. general Austin S. Miller. Gen. Miller escaped unharmed according to officials while the governor was critically injured. The Taliban claims responsibility. (BBC)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Syrian Republican Guard major general Issam Zahreddine, known for leading battles against the rebels in Homs and Aleppo, is killed by a landmine in Deir ez-Zor, according to Syrian media. (Al Arabiya)
2016 War in Somalia: Somali police say at least seven are dead after clashes as Somali and African Union troops pushed back al-Shabab extremists from Afgooye, a town near Mogadishu. (AP)
2015 The Israeli military evacuated dozens of Jewish worshippers who were surrounded by Palestinians after entering Joseph's Tomb compound in Nablus, which was recently torched by Palestinians. The area is under full Palestinian control but Jewish prayer is permitted there when coordinated with authorities. The military said Sunday's visit was not, and the worshippers had no permit. (AP), (New Delhi Television)
2014 Suspected Ugandan rebels kill more than 20 people near the Democratic Republic of the Congo town of Beni in their second attack in 48 hours. (Reuters)
2013 China's economy grew at a rate of 7.8 percent in the third quarter. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian civil war: Syrian military airstrikes kill at least 40 people, including civilians, in the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib governorate. (The New York Times)
2011 Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel. Among the prisoners released are 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks. (CNN) (The Guardian) (The Jerusalem Post)
2010 Iraq War: Amid increasing uncertainty about the timing of the release of the next batch of classified documents by WikiLeaks, the U.S. military assembles a 120-member team to search its database for clues in preparation for the publication event. (The New Zealand Herald) (BBC)
2009 Yemen claims to have killed 18 Shia rebels in fighting in the north of the country. (Pro Kerala)
2008 NASA launches Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite that will study the edge of solar system. (eFlux)
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.
2006 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Tokyo for talks with Japanese officials amid fears North Korea could be readying for a second nuclear test. (USA Today)
2005 Ex-chancellor Kenneth Clarke has been knocked out of the race to become the next leader of the UK Conservative Party. (BBC)
2004 India's most wanted bandit, sandalwood smuggler and elephant poacher, Veerappan, is shot dead by the Special Task Force in Tamil Nadu at IST, after having evaded capture for 20 years. (Reuters) (BBC)
2003 Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2002 October 18, 2002 Manila bus bombing: A bomb exploded in suburban Manila, destroying a bus and killing at least three people, while 23 others were wounded. A grenade exploded in the Philippine capital's financial district hours earlier. The bomb attacks occurred only one day after two deadly bombings in the southern Philippines.
2000 Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
1999 Russo and Ferrara's first Monday Nitro with them at the helm of creative airs.
1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1993 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1992 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
1991 Most Happy Fella closes at New York State Theater, New York City
1990 Once on this Island opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
1989 East German state / party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1985 Nintendo releases the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States, in New York City. Special displays are set up in department, toy, and electronics stores. The NES comes with the Robotic Operating Buddy and the Zapper light gun. Price is US$125. Seventeen game cartridges are available with the launch of the game system.
1984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1980 Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
1979 Beatlemania opens in London
1978 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
1977 W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1975 Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing My Little Town
1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1973 Raisin opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 847 performances
1971 In New York City, the Knapp Commission begins public hearings on police corruption.
1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1969 Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
1968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 metre dash.
1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
1966 Apple Tree opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
1965 The Indonesian government outlaws the Communist Party of Indonesia.
1964 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1962 JFK meets Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack
1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
1954 WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1952 Buttrio Square closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances
1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1944 Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel
1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1940 Kaufman and Harts George Washington Slept Here, premieres in New York City
1939 R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts Too Many Girls, premieres in New York City
1938 The German government expels 12,000 Polish Jews living in Germany the Polish government accepts 4,000 and refuses admittance to the remaining 8,000, who are forced to live in the no-man's land on the German-Polish frontier.
1937 October 21 ampndash Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.
1936 Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940.
1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1932 Belgium government of Renkin falls
1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes first jockey to win 7 races in one day.
1929 Women are considered ''Persons'' under Canadian law.
1927 The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.
1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
1925 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7 in football; New York Herald Tribune newspaper dubs them the Four Horsemen.
1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established.
1921 The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
1920 Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London 50 are injured.
1918 Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1915 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
1914 The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1913 Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave
1912 Beginning of the first Balkan War.
1910 Edward Forster publishes Howards End
1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m.
1907 Hague Convention revised by (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910).
1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
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