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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1356 –Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1748 –Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
- 1797 –Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
- 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.
- 1914 –The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
- 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.
- 1945 –Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Gilad Shalit is released.
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