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Events on the 18th of October in history

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18 Oct 0320 Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
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18 Oct 0614 King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
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18 Oct 0629 Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
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18 Oct 0707 John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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18 Oct 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.
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18 Oct 1016 The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Assandun.
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18 Oct 1016 Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
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18 Oct 1081 The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
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18 Oct 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates German Emperor Otto IV
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18 Oct 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
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18 Oct 1267 Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls Archbishop Engelbert III
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18 Oct 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
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18 Oct 1386 Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
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18 Oct 1534 New pursuit of French protestants
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18 Oct 1540 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
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18 Oct 1564 John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
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18 Oct 1572 Spanish troops attack Maastricht
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18 Oct 1599 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
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18 Oct 1622 French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
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18 Oct 1648 Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
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18 Oct 1648 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
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18 Oct 1667 English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
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18 Oct 1672 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
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18 Oct 1685 French King Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes
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18 Oct 1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
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18 Oct 1748 Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
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18 Oct 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
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18 Oct 1767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
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18 Oct 1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
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18 Oct 1775 American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
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18 Oct 1776 Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
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18 Oct 1776 In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
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18 Oct 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
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18 Oct 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
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18 Oct 1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
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18 Oct 1860 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
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18 Oct 1862 Morgan's raiders capture the federal garrison at Lexington, KY
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18 Oct 1863 Battle of Charlestown, West Virginia
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18 Oct 1867 United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
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18 Oct 1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
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18 Oct 1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers
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18 Oct 1873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
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18 Oct 1878 Edison makes electricity available for household usage
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18 Oct 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
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18 Oct 1889 1st all NYC World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA)
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18 Oct 1889 1st all NYC world series NY Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) (World Series #86)
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18 Oct 1890 John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
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18 Oct 1891 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
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18 Oct 1892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
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18 Oct 1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
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18 Oct 1898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
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18 Oct 1904 Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
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18 Oct 1908 Belgium annexes Congo Free State
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18 Oct 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
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18 Oct 1910 Edward Forster publishes "Howards End"
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18 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
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18 Oct 1912 Beginning of the 1st Balkan War
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18 Oct 1912 Italo-Turkish war ends
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18 Oct 1913 Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave
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18 Oct 1914 The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
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18 Oct 1915 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
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18 Oct 1918 Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
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18 Oct 1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
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18 Oct 1918 NHL's Qu
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18 Oct 1921 The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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18 Oct 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
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18 Oct 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.
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18 Oct 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established
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18 Oct 1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
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18 Oct 1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
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18 Oct 1925 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
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18 Oct 1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
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18 Oct 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.
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18 Oct 1930 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
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18 Oct 1932 Belgium government of Renkin falls
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18 Oct 1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
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18 Oct 1939 R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls, " premieres in New York City
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18 Oct 1940 Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here, " premieres in New York City
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18 Oct 1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
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18 Oct 1942 Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
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18 Oct 1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
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18 Oct 1944 Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel
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18 Oct 1944 World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
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18 Oct 1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
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18 Oct 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
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18 Oct 1945 Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements
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18 Oct 1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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18 Oct 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 president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
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18 Oct 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva "Evita" Duarte.
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18 Oct 1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
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18 Oct 1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of the A's after 50 years
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18 Oct 1952 "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances
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18 Oct 1952 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
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18 Oct 1953 WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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18 Oct 1953 WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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18 Oct 1953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
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18 Oct 1954 WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Oct 1954 WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)
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18 Oct 1954 Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
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18 Oct 1954 Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
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18 Oct 1955 Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
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18 Oct 1955 University of California discovers anti-proton
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18 Oct 1960 Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
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18 Oct 1960 In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News
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18 Oct 1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack
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18 Oct 1962 Dr Watson (US) and Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
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18 Oct 1962 JFK meets Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
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18 Oct 1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"
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18 Oct 1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
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18 Oct 1963 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
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18 Oct 1964 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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18 Oct 1964 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
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18 Oct 1966 "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
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18 Oct 1967 AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams
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18 Oct 1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
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18 Oct 1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
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18 Oct 1967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
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18 Oct 1967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
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18 Oct 1968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
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18 Oct 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.
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18 Oct 1968 Bob Beamon of USA sets the long jump record (29"2
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18 Oct 1968 Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
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18 Oct 1968 John Lennon & Yoko One fined
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18 Oct 1968 Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
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18 Oct 1968 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt
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18 Oct 1969 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
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18 Oct 1969 Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession
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18 Oct 1969 Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
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18 Oct 1969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
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18 Oct 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
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18 Oct 1970 Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
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18 Oct 1973 "Raisin" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 847 performances
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18 Oct 1973 Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin, " premieres in New York City
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18 Oct 1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
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18 Oct 1973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
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18 Oct 1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
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18 Oct 1974 Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
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18 Oct 1974 Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
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18 Oct 1975 Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town"
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18 Oct 1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
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18 Oct 1977 New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
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18 Oct 1977 W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
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18 Oct 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.
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18 Oct 1977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
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18 Oct 1977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
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18 Oct 1977 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
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18 Oct 1978 New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs. LA Kings
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18 Oct 1978 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
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18 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London
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18 Oct 1979 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
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18 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London
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18 Oct 1980 Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
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18 Oct 1980 Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
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18 Oct 1981 New York Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
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18 Oct 1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
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18 Oct 1984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
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18 Oct 1988 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
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18 Oct 1989 East German state / party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
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18 Oct 1989 Hungary revises constitution
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18 Oct 1989 Peaceful Revolution: Erich Honecker resigns as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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18 Oct 1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
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18 Oct 1990 "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
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18 Oct 1991 "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater, New York City
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18 Oct 1991 The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
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18 Oct 1992 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
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18 Oct 1992 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
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18 Oct 1992 Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
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18 Oct 1993 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
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18 Oct 1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
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18 Oct 2003 Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
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18 Oct 2004 Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
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18 Oct 2007 Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
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