Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 18
This is a list of selected October 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
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| 1016 – Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeated Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun, gaining control over most of the Kingdom of England. | {{refimprove}} |
| 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. | short |
| 1748 – The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. | War article tagged refimprove, Treaty article has unreferenced section |
| 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company was incorporated by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom. | no footnotes |
| 1977 – Various Red Army Faction members died in prison, officially by suicide, ending the German Autumn crisis. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1386 – A special Pontifical High Mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit commemorated the opening of Heidelberg University.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.
- 1954 – The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced in Indianapolis, Indiana, US.
- 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23 years.
- 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopted a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto in Karachi caused at least 139 deaths and 450 injuries.
Notes
- 1968 Olympics Black Power salute appears on October 16, so Bob Beamon should not appear in the same year.
October 18: Feast day of Saint Luke; Alaska Day (1867)
- 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity, observed an eclipse that allowed historians to calculate the approximate dates of his life.
- 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.
- 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
- 1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 (pictured) performed direct analysis of the environment of Venus and became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, although it stopped working before that.
- 2004 – SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shwe announced that Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was "permitted to retire on health grounds", but then had him arrested.