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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (born October 5, 1932) is an American politician. She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. She served in congress from 1973 until the end of 1978. She was the Los Angeles County Supervisor representing the 2nd District (1992–2008). She was the Chair three times (1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03). On December 1, 2008, she retired from the Board of Supervisors and was replaced by Mark Ridley-Thomas. On March 29, 2012, she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the Amtrak Board of Directors.
Romano Louis Mazzoli (November 2, 1932 – November 1, 2022) was an American politician. He represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District from 1971 through 1995 as a Democrat. He was the primary architect, with Senator Alan Simpson, of major immigration reform legislation known as Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. He died at his home in Louisville on November 1, 2022.
Oscar Baylin Goodman (born July 26, 1939) is an American attorney and politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1999 to 2011. His wife, Carolyn Goodman, replaced him as mayor in 2011.  Goodman is an Independent and a former member of the Democratic Party. Goodman is known for legalizing prostitution in Las Vegas and allowing brothels to be open in Las Vegas.
Carolyn Goldmark Goodman (born March 25, 1939) is an American politician. She became the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada in 2011. She is the wife of former mayor and attorney Oscar Goodman and the second female mayor of Las Vegas, after Jan Laverty Jones. Goodman was mayor of Las Vegas during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. On August 3, 2016, Goodman refused to support Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Sebastian Stan (born 13 August 1982) is a Romanian-American actor. He is known for his television role as Carter Baizen in "Gossip Girl" and for his movie role as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with 2011's ' and later also in ' (2014), Ant-Man (2015) ' (2016), "Black Panther" (2018), ' (2018), "" (2019) and in the Disney+ miniseries "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (2021). In 2015, he co-starred in Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama "Ricki and the Flash" and Ridley Scott's science fiction film "The Martian". In 2017, he portrayed Jeff Gillooly in the biopic "I, Tonya".
Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman hired by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News. At NBC, he served as chief Diplomatic Correspondent and host of "Meet the Press". His brother, Bernard Kalb, is also a journalist.
On 17 October 2018, a bomb attack and school shooting happened in the dining room and second floor of Kerch Polytechnic College in Kerch, Crimea. The school is attended by students aged 15 to mid-20s. 20 people died and over 53 were injured, 12 of them critically. The shooter was 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov, who after the attack killed himself. One of the survivors said the shooting lasted 15 minutes. The crime is under investigation as a mass murder and not terrorist attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the attack as a "tragic event" and offered his condolences to the victims' families while attending a conference in Sochi. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed condolences to the victims, whom he described as Ukrainian citizens.
Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov (, 2 May 2000 - 17 October 2018) was a Russian college student and mass murderer responsible for the Kerch Polytechnic College massacre on October 17, 2018, Roslyakov killed 20 people and wounded 67 others before subsequently committing suicide. It was the deadliest school shooting in the former Soviet Union since the 2004 Beslan school siege. He was 18 years old at the time of the massacre. Early Life and Background. Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov was born on 2 May, 2000. He grew up in the rural exurb of Kerch known as Arshintsevo. His family called him Vladik. Roslyakov was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents by his father, Igor. His mother worked as an orderly at the hospital in Kerch and was paid low. Igor was a former soldier who had served in Afghanistan for several years. The experience there left him brain damaged so he began collecting disability payments, and also struggled with alcoholism. Igor went as far as to threaten their neighbours with a sword. When Roslyakov was around ten years old, his parents broke up, due to his father becoming abusive towards Roslyakov, his mother and other relatives. Roslyakov studied at a local school with no interest and poor grades. He had few friends and his hobbies included weapons and video games. In 2015 he joined the college to study to become an electrician. In college he developed an interest in explosives and weapons and started to take a knife bayonet to class. One day he discharged pepper spray in a class and failed to explain his actions. His mother, a Jehovah's Witness, limited his social activity, searched his pockets and refused to allow him to go to the cinema or use a computer, only allowing the latter when he turned 16. In the days leading up to the attack, Roslyakov stated that he did not believe in the afterlife. On the eve of the attack, according to neighbours, Roslyakov burned a Bible in which he had highlighted verses, along with his mobile phone, and other
Berthold Leibinger (26 November 1930 – 16 October 2018) was a German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the head of the German company Trumpf, a leader in laser technology. He was founder of the non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung. He was on the advisory board of major companies and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stuttgart. Leibinger died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on 16 October 2018 in Stuttgart, aged 87.
Jacques Monory (25 June 1924 – 17 October 2018) was a French painter and filmmaker. Monory was first exhibited at the Drouant-David Gallery in Paris in 1952. During the 1960s, he became one of the leading figures of the European movement of pop art. In 1968, he directed the influential movie Ex- and painted the series Les Meurtres (Murders) . Monory died on 17 October 2018 in Paris from pneumonia at the age of 94.
Chagatai Khan was the second son of Genghis Khan. He was the Khan Chagatai Khanate from 1226 to 1242. The name of the Chagatai language and the Chagatai Turks is derived from his name.
Jan Jakob Tønseth (1 September 1947 – 12 October 2018) was a Norwegian author, poet and translator. He was born in Oslo. Tønseth's first poetry collection was "Kimærer" in 1971, published when he was 24 years. He was known for his novel trilogy "Hilmar Iversens ensomhet" (1992), "Et vennskap" (1997) and "Resignasjon og portvin" (2002). Tønseth was a member of Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. Tønseth died on 12 October 2018 in Oslo from multiple myeloma at the age of 71.
Ara Güler (, August 16, 1928 – October 17, 2018) was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist. He was nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers". He was born in Istanbul. Güler traveled on assignment to Iran, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Kenya, New Guinea, Borneo, as well as all parts of Turkey. In the 1970s he photographed politicians and artists such as Winston Churchill, Indira Gandhi, Maria Callas, John Berger, Bertrand Russell, Willy Brandt, Alfred Hitchcock, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. Güler's archive contains some 800,000 photographic slides. Güler died in Istanbul on October 17, 2018 from a heart attack, aged 90.
Egobunma "Ego" Nwodim (; born March 10, 1988) is an American actress and comedian. She is a featured player on the forty-fourth season of "Saturday Night Live". She starred in supporting roles on television for Nwodim include "Law &amp; Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders" (a three-episode arc in 2017), "2 Broke Girls", and "Living Biblically".
Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress and comedian. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She is known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live". She also voices the anthropomorphic cat Cooch on the Crackle series "SuperMansion". In 2018, she played the supporting role of Leonor in the Ben Falcone movie "Life of the Party". Gardner is known for her impressions of Dana Bash, Kristen Schaal, Allison Janney, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift.
Dana Bash (born Dana Ruth Schwartz; June 15, 1971) is an American journalist, anchorwoman and political correspondent. She is known for being a correspondent for "CNN". Born in New York City to a Jewish family and raised in Montvale, New Jersey. Bash was one of the women honored at "Elle" magazine's 2014 "Women in Washington Power List" event.
Jaques Wagner (born 16 March 1951) is a Brazilian politician. He was Governor of Bahia from 2007 to 2015 and Minister of Defence in 2015. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2019, he has been a Senator for the state of Bahia. He was a political strategist for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's 2022 presidential campaign.
Singam 3 is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action masala movie written and directed by Hari. A sequel to "Singam II" (2013) and the third movie in the "Singam" franchise, it stars Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles. It is the fifth collaboration of Suriya and Hari. Principal photography commenced in January 2016 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The movie was released worldwide on 9 February 2017 along with the Telugu dubbed version, "Yamudu 3". Box office. Si3 film collected in domestic box office on its opening day and in 5 days of release. The film collected worldwide in 6 days. Singam 3 final box-office was approximately 136 crores. And the film completed 100 days run and was declared "super hit".
Maari 2 is a 2018 Tamil language romantic action movie directed by Balaji Mohan. It is a sequel to his 2015 movie "Maari". Dhanush produced the movie under his company Wunderbar Films. He also stars as the title character. Production. Principal photography for the movie began on 22 January 2018. Sai Pallavi plays the female lead. Tovino Thomas plays the villian of the movie. Shooting ended in August 2018. Response. This movie received mixed reviews from critics. IMDb (Internet Movie Dadabase) shows it with 6.8 stars out of 10. But it received positive reviews from family audience and became a box office success.
Kolamavu Kokila () is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film, written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar and produced by Lyca Productions. The film stars Nayanthara in the lead role alongside Yogi Babu and Saranya Ponvannan with Jacqueline playing key role. Anirudh Ravichander composes the film's music. The film is an unofficial remake of "We're the Millers". The film was released on 17 August 2018. Plot. Kokila is a timid girl who is struggling to find a job. To make matters worse, her mother is diagnosed with stage two lung cancer. Desperate, Kokila eventually works for a local drug smuggler Mohan in order to finance her mother's treatment. However, she becomes worried after an honest police inspector is transferred to the area and starts to investigate Mohan's underground businesses. Mohan attempts to rape her, but she brutally beats him up before escaping. Mohan's boss, Bhai from Mumbai, blackmails Kokila to continue his drug smuggling or else her entire family will be killed. With the help of her neighbours Sekar and Lakshman Kumar, who are in love with her and her sister respectively, Kokila's family smuggles the remaining drugs across the city to Alphonse, Bhai's biggest client. The rest of the story is about how Kokila and her family escape the mafia. Production. In July 2017, Lyca Productions announced that they would be making a film starring Nayanthara in the lead role, which would be directed by Nelson Dilipkumar. Nelson had previously worked as a creative director with the television channel Star Vijay, as well as completing half the shoot of a project titled "Vettai Mannan" starring Silambarasan, Deeksha Seth and Hansika Motwani, which ran into production trouble. Described as a "dark comedy", the makers held discussions with Saranya Ponvannan and Yogi Babu in July 2017 to cast them in key roles. Anirudh Ravichander was signed up to compose the film's score and soundtrack. Sivakumar
Dinosaur size has long been of interest to the scientific and the public. Dinosaurs show some of the most extreme variations in size of any land animal group, ranging from the tiny hummingbirds, which can weigh as little as three grams, to the extinct titanosaurs, which could weigh as much as . We will never be certain of the largest and smallest dinosaurs to have existed. This is because only a tiny percentage of animals ever fossilize, and most of these remain buried in the earth. Few specimens recovered are complete skeletons, and impressions of skin and other soft tissues are rare. Rebuilding a complete skeleton by comparing the size and morphology of bones to those of similar, better-known species is an inexact art, and reconstructing the muscles and other organs of the living animal is, at best, a process of educated guesswork. Weight estimates for dinosaurs are much more variable than length estimates, because estimating length for extinct animals is much more easily done from a skeleton than estimating weight. Estimating weight is most easily done with the laser scan skeleton technique that puts a "virtual" skin over it, but even this is only an estimate. Current evidence suggests that dinosaur average size varied through the Triassic, early Jurassic, late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Predatory theropod dinosaurs, which occupied most terrestrial carnivore niches during the Mesozoic, most often fall into the 100- to 1,000-kilogram (220 to 2,200 lb) category when sorted by estimated weight into categories based on order of magnitude. In comparison, recent predatory carnivore mammals peak in the 10- to 100-kilogram (22 to 220 lb) category. The mode of Mesozoic dinosaur body masses is between one and ten metric tonnes. This contrasts sharply with the size of Cenozoic mammals, estimated by the National Museum of Natural History as about .
James Nathaniel Brown (February 17, 1936 – May 18, 2023) was an American football player and actor. He was a running back for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 through 1965. He is thought to be one of the greatest football players of all time.  An actor, Brown was known for his role as Byron Williams in Tim Burton's 1996 movie "Mars Attacks!". Brown was born in St. Simons Island, Georgia. In 2002, he was named by "The Sporting News" as the greatest professional football player ever. Brown died on May 18, 2023 at his home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 87.
St. Simons Island or simply St. Simons is a barrier island and census-designated place (CDP) located on St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, United States.  The community and the island are interchangeable, known simply as "St. Simons Island", or locally as "The Island".  St. Simons is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and according to the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 14,982.
Robert William Doran HFNZCS (5 November 1944 – 13 October 2018) was a New Zealand computer scientist and historian of computing. He was Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests included computer architecture, parallel algorithms, and computer programming. He was also interested in the history of computing. Doran died on 13 October 2018 at home in Auckland, aged 73.
General Abdul Raziq Achakzai (), (1979 – October 18, 2018) was an officer in the Afghan National Police. He was born in Kandahar Province of Afghanistan and was a member of Pashtun people. In November 2001 Raziq joined anti-Taliban forces, under Fayda Mohammad and Gul Agha Sherzai, which overthrew the Taliban in Kandahar. In 2001, he rose to command the Afghanistan Border Police on Afghanistan's border between Kandahar and Pakistan's Balochistan Province. Achakzai was alleged to have committed numerous human right violations including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and torture in the Kandahar province. He was killed by a gunman who opened fire on security officials as they were leaving a meeting in Kandahar on October 18, 2018, aged 39.
Ayub Bachchu (; 16 August 1962 – 18 October 2018) was a Bangladeshi musician, singer-songwriter and Guitarist. He was best known as the founding member of rock band LRB. He was a member of the band Feelings and later he joined the band Souls as lead guitarist. He was one the most influential figures in Bangladeshi rock music.  Bachchu died of a heart attack in Dhaka on 18 October 2018 at the age of 56 in Square Hospital of Bangladesh.
Anthea Bell OBE (10 May 1936 – 18 October 2018) was an English translator. She was born in Suffolk and went to Somerville College, Oxford. She translated many literary works, especially children's literature, from French, German and Danish. These include "Austerlitz" by W. G. Sebald, the "Inkworld" trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French "Asterix" comics along with co-translator Derek Hockridge. Bell died on 18 October 2018 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 82.
This article lists the heads of state of Sudan since the country's independence in 1956. Background. Since independence was proclaimed on 1 January 1956, six individuals (and three multi-member sovereignty councils) have served as head of state of Sudan. Sudan was governed as a condominium by Egypt and the United Kingdom, under the name Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In November 1958, General Ibrahim Abboud led a military coup d'état, assuming the role of head of state as Chairman of the Supreme Council. Assuming the title of president in 1964, he resigned later that year due to general discontent around the rule of the military regime. Abboud was replaced by a senior civil servant, Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, who served as acting president for 18 days before transferring executive authority to a Committee of Sovereignty.
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab (; 1 January 1934 – 18 October 2018), also known by his initials ARSD, was a Sudanese soldier who was the 5th President of Sudan and Chairman of the Military Council from 1985 to 1986. Previously, Dahab was the Minister of Defense under President Gaafar Nimeiry from March to April 1985. Dahab led a successful coup d'état against President Nimeiry on 6 April 1985 due to his failures to stop the Second Sudanese Civil War. In 1986, Dahab called for elections to elect a civilian government. Ahmed al-Mirghani was elected as President and Sadiq al-Mahdi as Prime Minister. Dahab officially handed over power to the elected civilian government on 6 May 1986. After his presidency, Dahab moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he died on 18 October 2018, at the age of 84.
Moi-Yo Miller was the stage name of Mona Loretta Miller (24 April 1914 – 7 October 2018), was an Australian entertainer. She toured the world as a magicians assistant and illusionist to the stage magician Dante (Aka Harry Jansen), during the Golden Age of Magic of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1993 she received the Dragon Award presented by the J. Marberger Stuart Foundation. She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2014. Miller died of dementia on 7 October 2018 in Prahran, Victoria at the age of 104.
Richard Van Slater (May 19, 1951 – October 18, 2018) better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Tampa, Florida. He wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid-1990s for many promotions including Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Slater began wrestling in Championship Wrestling from Florida and Georgia Championship Wrestling. He worked as a booker in Knoxville, Tennessee after Ron Fuller sold his promotion to Jim Barnett.  He wrestled briefly in the World Wrestling Federation as a babyface under a "Rebel" gimmick, but soon returned to WCW. He wrestled there until receiving his back injury that ended his career. In June 2004, Slater was convicted for the stabbing of his former girlfriend Theresa Halbert. He was sentenced to one year of house arrest and two years of probation. He blamed the incident on influence from painkillers.  Slater died on October 18, 2018 at the age of 67.
Devin Gerald Nunes (; born October 1, 1973) is an American politician who has been Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board since 2025. He was the U.S. Representative for from 2003 until 2022. He is a Republican. He was the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was a member of President Trump's transition team. In December 2021, Nunes resigned from Congress to join Trump Media &amp; Technology Group as chief executive officer. He officially resigned on January 1, 2022.
Tulare ( ) is a city in Tulare County, California. The population was 68,875 at the 2020 census. The city is named for the currently dry Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. The city is sixty miles north of Bakersfield, California.
Narayan Datt Tiwari (18 October 1925 – 18 October 2018) was an Indian politician. He was the only Indian politician to be chief minister of two different Indian states. He was formerly in Praja Socialist Party and later joined Indian National Congress. He was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1976–77, 1984–85, 1988–89) and Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (2002–2007). In 1986–1987, he was in Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet as Minister for External Affairs. He was Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 until 2009. Tiwari died on his 93rd birthday on 18 October 2018 in New Delhi from multiple organ failure.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Hon Hai Technology Group in China and Taiwan and Foxconn internationally, is the world's largest contract maker of electronics.  It has factories across mainland China. It is best known for making iPhones and other Apple devices. Their customers also include Sony, Dell, and BlackBerry.
Parental Guidance (previously titled Us &amp; Them) is a 2012 American family-comedy movie starring Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, and Tom Everett Scott and directed by Andy Fickman. It was released on December 25, 2012.