About October 18
October 18, 2024 is the 292nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 103 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 18
- 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.
- 1210 –Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
- 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.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
- 1851 –Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1860 –The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 1898 –United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
- 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.
- 1945 –Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 1945 –The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1954 –Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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