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
- 1016 –The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
- 1081 –The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
- 1356 –Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1386 –Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
- 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 –American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
- 1797 –Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
- 1860 –The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 1867 –United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
- 1898 –United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
- 1921 –The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1954 –Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 1967 –The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 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.
- 1991 –The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2003 –Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
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