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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1860 –The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 1954 –Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 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.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1873 –Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician (d. 1951)
- 1902 –Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
- 1903 –Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
- 1920 –Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and cultural minister (d. 1994)
- 1928 –Keith Jackson, American football commentator
- 1954 –Arliss Howard, American actor
- 1958 –Corinne Bohrer, American actress
- 1978 –Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
- 1982 –Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
- 1991 –Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
Who died on October 18?
- 1775 –Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
- 1932 –Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
- 1976 –Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
- 1982 –Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
- 1987 –Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch film director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 2000 –Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
- 2001 –Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
- 2002 –Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
- 2008 –Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
- 2009 –Haji Md Abu Taher, Bangladeshi(Chittagong) famous person, munificent,educationist (b. 1951)
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