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, 1,729,209,600 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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1851 –Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 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.
- 1945 –Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 1954 –Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 1991 –The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2011 –Gilad Shalit is released.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1595 –Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
- 1634 –Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
- 1873 –Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician (d. 1951)
- 1925 –Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician {d. 2011}
- 1931 –Ien Dales, Dutch politician and mayor (d. 1994)
- 1947 –Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1947 –Paul Chuckle, British comedian
- 1964 –Dan Lilker, American musician Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth
- 1978 –Jake Farrow, American actor
- 1987 –Zac Efron, American actor
Who died on October 18?
- 1417 –Pope Gregory XII
- 1911 –Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
- 1942 –Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
- 1973 –Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
- 1977 –Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides: Jan-Carl Raspe, German left-wing militant (b. 1944)
- 1978 –Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
- 1983 –Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2000 –Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
- 2003 –Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
- 2006 –Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
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