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 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 5, 2016 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,476,748,800 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 ‘dihectaenneacontadigon’ 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 102 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 1,397 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 18 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1648 –Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
- 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?
- 1569 –Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
- 1634 –Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
- 1903 –Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
- 1909 –Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
- 1931 –Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
- 1948 –Ntozake Shange, American author
- 1959 –Chris Russo, American sports talk show host
- 1978 –Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress
- 1990 –Carly Schroeder, American actress
- 1998 –Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
Who died on October 18?
- 325 –Jin Mingdi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 299)
- 1770 –John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
- 1889 –Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
- 1975 –Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2000 –Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
- 2002 –Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
- 2003 –Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
- 2003 –Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
- 2009 –Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist (b. 1918)
- 2009 –Haji Md Abu Taher, Bangladeshi(Chittagong) famous person, munificent,educationist (b. 1951)
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