Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 18
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October 18: Alaska Day (1867); Feast day of Saint Luke
- 1009 – Under orders from Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed.
- 1081 – Byzantine–Norman Wars: The Normans under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, defeated the Byzantines outside the city of Dyrrhachium, the Byzantine capital of Illyria.
- 1356 – The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland, and caused much destruction in a vast region extending into France and Germany.
- 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville (pictured), was first published as The Whale.
- 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set a world record of 8.90m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23 years.
- 2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto in Karachi resulted in at least 139 deaths and 450 injuries.