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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 5, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,336 hours 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 ‘dihectaenneacontadigon’ day.
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 103 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 4,319 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.
- 1356 –Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1599 –Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
- 1775 –African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
- 1797 –Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
- 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.
- 1967 –The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 2011 –Gilad Shalit is released.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1662 –Matthew Henry, English minister (d. 1714)
- 1894 –Tibor Déry, Hungarian author (d. 1977)
- 1921 –Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)
- 1939 –Flavio Cotti, Swiss jurist
- 1946 –James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
- 1953 –Loes Luca, Dutch actress, singer and comedian
- 1961 –Wynton Marsalis, American jazz musician
- 1965 –Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
- 1970 –Mike Starink, Dutch television presenter and stage actor
- 1973 –Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
Who died on October 18?
- 1865 –Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
- 1965 –Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
- 1965 –Larry Thorne, US soldier (b. 1919)
- 1966 –Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
- 1977 –Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides: Jan-Carl Raspe, German left-wing militant (b. 1944)
- 1982 –Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
- 1984 –Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
- 2002 –Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
- 2005 –Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
- 2009 –Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist (b. 1918)
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