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October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years ). There are 74 days remaining.
Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , a Christian church in Jerusalem , is completely destroyed by the "mad" 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.1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes , which has protected French Protestants1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of the Austrian Succession .1767 - Mason-Dixon line , survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania completed1851 - "Moby-Dick ", by US-novelist Herman Melville , is first published as "The Whale" by Richard Bentley , London .1860 - The Second Opium War finally ended at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin , an unequal treaty .1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska (Alaska Day )1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico .1907 - Second Geneva Convention 1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1912 - Beginning of First Balkan War 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia 1945 - The USSR 's nuclear program receives plans for the USA 's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio 1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are fined UKP 150 after 168 grains of marijuana are found in their apartment in a police raid.1969 - Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possessin of marijuana on Hawaii .1974 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.1977 - German Autumn : a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane by the Red Army Faction (RAF) came to an end when Schleyer was executed and various RAF members committed suicide . The German government stated that it would never again negotiate with terrorists .1993 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece .2003 - Bolivian Gas War : President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada , was forced to resign and leave Bolivia .
Births 1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464 )1706 - Baldassare Galuppi , composer (d. 1785 )1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (d. 1803 )1785 - Thomas Love Peacock , English satirist (d. 1866 )1859 - Henri Bergson , writer (d. 1941 )1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi , former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951 )1898 - Lotte Lenya , singer, actress (d. 1981 )1898 - Shin'ichi Suzuki , violin player and teacher, creator of the Suzuki method (d. 1998 ) 1902 - Miriam Hopkins , actress (d. 1972 )1903 - Lina Radke , German athlete1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , guru 1913 - Evelyn Venable Mohr, actress (d. 1993 )1918 - Bobby Troup , musician (d. 1999 )1919 - Anita O'Day , jazz singer1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau , fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000 ) 1920 - Melina Mercouri , actress (d. 1994 )1921 - Jesse Helms , Senator from North Carolina 1926 - Chuck Berry , musician1926 - Klaus Kinski , actor (d. 1991 ) 1927 - George C. Scott , actor (d. 1999 )1928 - Keith Jackson , American football commentator1928 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster , musician 1929 - Violeta Chamorro , President of Nicaragua 1934 - Inger Stevens , actress (d. 1970 )1934 - Chuck Swindoll , American evangelist 1935 - Peter Boyle , actor1939 - Mike Ditka , American football player, coach, commentator1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald , assassin (d. 1963 ) 1947 - Joe Morton, actor1947 - Laura Nyro , singer, songwriter (d. 1997 ) 1948 - Ntozake Shange, author1950 - Om Puri , actor1950 - Wendy Wasserstein , playwright 1951 - Terry McMillan , author1956 - Martina Navratilova , tennis player1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme 1961 - Wynton Marsalis , musician1962 - Vincent Spano, actor1976 - Azlea Antistia , erotic actress
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October 18 (7599 words)
Formal transfer of the territory was made at Sitka on October 18 , 1867 . This October festival costs no powder nor ringing of bells, but every tree is a liberty-pole on which a thousand bright flags are run up. I didn't begin to do anything passable in my trip to Africa until the moment when I had sufficiently forgotten small details, and so remembered the striking and poetic side of things for my pictures; up to that point, I was pursued by the love of exactitude, which the majority of people mistake for truth.
Alaska Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (143 words)
Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska , observed on October 18 . It is the anniversary of the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States following the Alaska Purchase , which took place at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sitka on October 18 , 1867 . Though Alaska Day is legally observed statewide, it is generally only celebrated in Sitka, where schools release students early, many companies close for the day, and events such as a parade and reenactment of the flag raising are held.
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