About October 18

October 18, 2025 is the 291st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 122 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 18

  • 1016 –
    The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
  • 1081 –
    The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
  • 1210 –
    Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
  • 1386 –
    Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
  • 1599 –
    Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
  • 1648 –
    Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
  • 1748 –
    Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • 1775 –
    African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
  • 1797 –
    Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
  • 1912 –
    First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
  • 1921 –
    The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
  • 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.
  • 1944 –
    Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
  • 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 then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
  • 1945 –
    The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • 1964 –
    The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
  • 1967 –
    The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
  • 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.
  • 2003 –
    Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
  • 2011 –
    Gilad Shalit is released.

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