October 18

October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). There are 74
days remaining.

Events:

   * 1016 - Battle of Ashingdon -- Danes defeat Saxons
   * 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which had
     protected French Protestants
   * 1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania
     completed
   * 1808 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State
   * 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska
   * 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico
   * 1912 - Beginning of First Balkan War
   * 1922 - BBC established
   * 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens
   * 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national
     militia
        o - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

Births:

   * 1741 - Choderlos de Laclos, author (+ 1803)
   * 1859 - Henri Bergson, writer
   * 1898 - Lotte Lenya, singer, actress (+ 1981)
   * 1902 - Mirian Hopkins, actress (+ 1972)
   * 1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru
   * 1918 - Bobby Troup, musician (+ 1999)
   * 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (+
     2000)
        o - Anita O'Day, jazz singer
   * 1920 - Melina Mercouri, actress (+ 1994)
   * 1921 - Jesse Helms, Senator from North Carolina
   * 1926 - Chuck Berry, musician
   * 1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor (+ 1991)
   * 1927 - George C. Scott, actor (+ 1999)
   * 1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
   * 1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
   * 1934 - Inger Stevens, actress (+ 1970)
   * 1935 - Peter Boyle, actor
   * 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, commentator
   * 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin (+ 1963)
   * 1947 - Laura Nyro, singer, songwriter (+ 1997)
        o - Joe Morton, actor
   * 1948 - Ntozake Shange, author
   * 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, playwright
        o - Om Puri, actor
   * 1951 - Terry McMillan, author
   * 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis player
   * 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme
   * 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, musician
   * 1962 - Vincent Spano, actor

Deaths:

   * 707 - Pope John VII
   * 1871 - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing
     machines
   * 1893 - Charles Gounod, composer
   * 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria
   * 1931 - Thomas Edison, inventor
   * 1984 - Jon-Erix Hexum, actor, model
   * 2000 - Gwen Verdon, dancer, actress
        o - Julie London, singer, actress
   * 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut

Holidays:

   * Christianity - Feast of Saint Luke
   * Alaska: Alaska Day

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