About October 18
October 18, 2021 is the 291st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 106 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.
- 1081 –The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
- 1210 –Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
- 1648 –Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
- 1914 –The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Gilad Shalit is released.
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