October 18 in History
What happened on October 18 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on october 18 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on october 18 in history.
?>2007
Suicide attack on a motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 139 and wounds 450; the subject of the attack, Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is not harmed.
2003
Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigns in the wake of protests centered around Bolivia’s natural gas resources.
1968
US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are suspended by US Olympic Committee for giving “black power” salute while receiving their medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
1967
A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus.
1950
The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there.
1944
Lt. General Joseph Stilwell is recalled from China by president Franklin Roosevelt.
1939
President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters.
1921
Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence.
1919
Madrid opens a subway system.
1918
Czechs seize Prague and renounce Hapsburg’s rule.
1912
The First Balkan War breaks out between the members of the Balkan League–Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro–and the Ottoman Empire.
1910
M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubs.
1883
The weather station at the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland, the highest mountain in Britain, is declared open. Weather stations were set up on the tops of mountains all over Europe and the Eastern United States in order to gather information for the new weather forecasts.
1867
The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control.
1867
The rules for American football are formulated at a meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities.
1813
The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig.
1685
Edict of Nantes is lifted by Louis XIV. The edict, signed at Nantes, France, by King Henry IV in 1598, gave the Huguenots religious liberty, civil rights and security. By revoking the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV abrogated their religious liberties.
1648
The “shoemakers of Boston”–the first labor organization in what would become the United States–is authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.