What are the important events that happened on October 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 18 is the 291st day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 5, 2017 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,508,284,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontahenagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac 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 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,762 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 18 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1210 –Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
- 1748 –Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 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.
- 1898 –United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
- 1914 –The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
- 1921 –The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
- 1967 –The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1897 –Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
- 1904 –Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli academic (d. 1981)
- 1919 –Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian politician (d. 2000)
- 1926 –Chuck Berry, American musician
- 1934 –Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
- 1952 –Chuck Lorre, American T.V. producer
- 1954 –Liz Burch, Australian actress
- 1959 –Steve Swayne, American academic
- 1975 –Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1977 –Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
Who died on October 18?
- 1570 –Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
- 1678 –Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
- 1921 –King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- 1959 –Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- 1961 –Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
- 1973 –Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, (Pogo) (b. 1913)
- 1978 –Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
- 1982 –Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
- 1987 –Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch film director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 2004 –Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
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