Historical Events In October - 18
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1973 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin on October - 18.
1973 On this day in history crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
1975 Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47 on this day in history.
1977 On October - 18 rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies
1978 On October - 18 frank Woolley, cricketer (58,969 1st-class runs), dies
1979 On October - 18 "Beatlemania" opens in London
1982 On October - 18 bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97
1983 On October - 18 vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (55 Tests for India), dies
1984 Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82 on October - 18.
1985 On this day in history benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
1987 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83 on this day in history.
1988 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa), dies at 60 on October - 18.
1989 On October - 18 uS 62nd manned space mission (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
1993 On this day in history dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
1994 Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68 on this day in history.
2005 The UN tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and sexual abuse on October - 18.
2006 Microsoft publicly releases Windows Internet Explorer 7 on this day in history.
2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing 136 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured on October - 18.
2011 Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks on this day in history.
2011 Gilad Shalit is released on October - 18.
2012 On October - 18 syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2013 On this day in history saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway" on this day in history.
2017 On this day in history 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new eraâ€
2019 On this day in history nASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.
2019 Riots in Chilean capital city Santiago erupt as civil unrest escalated as a reaction to a series of economic measures and Government's declarations labeled as abuse by protesters on October - 18.
2021 On October - 18 marvel film "Eternals" directed by Chloé Zhao, starring an ensemble cast including Gemma Chan, Richard Madden and Angelina Jolie premieres in Los Angeles
2023 Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrested at a demonstration outside an oil conference in London on October - 18.