18 October

The 18t o October is the 291t day o the year (292t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 74 days bidin.

 Events 
 1016 - The Dens defeat the Saxons in the Battle o Assandun, givin them control ower maist o Ingland.
 1356 - Basel, Swisserland, is destroyed bi a yirdquauk.
 1685 - Louis XIV o Fraunce abandons the Edict o Nantes, causin mony Huguenots tae flee the kintra.
 1818 - The Varsity o Bonn is foondit.
 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published.
 1867 - Alaska is offeecially transferred frae Roushie tae the Unitit States.
 1906 - A major fire destroys twa prominent biggins in Akureyri, Iceland.
 1922 - The BBC is foondit.
 1967 - The Soviet Union's Venera 4 probe sends the first foto frae unner the atmosphere on Venus.
 1977 - German Hairst: Murther o German businessman Hanns-Martin Schleyer an alleged suicides o fower Reid Airmy Faction members.
 1989 - Erich Honecker resigns as leader o East Germany.
 1989 - The Galileo spacecraft is launched tae Jupiter.
 1991 - Azerbaijan declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
 2007 - A bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan kills 139 fowk.
 2011 - Israeli sodger Gilad Shalit is released bi Palestinian captors in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian preesoners bein released bi Israel.
 2015 - Scotland are controversially knockit oot o the 2015 Rugby Warld Cup in Ingland wi a nairrae defeat tae Australie.
 2019 - At least 62 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
 2019 - Jessica Meir an Christina Koch perform the first aw-female spacewalk.

 Births 
 1405 - Pape Pius II (d. 1464)
 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
 1804 - Mongkut, Keeng o Siam (d. 1868)
 1831 - Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
 1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher an theologian (d. 1931)
 1898 - Lotte Lenya, Austrick sangster (d. 1981)
 1905 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Preses o Ivory Coast (d. 1993)
 1905 - Sammy Black, Scots fitbawer (d. 1977)
 1919 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 2000)
 1925 - Ramiz Alia, Preses o Albanie (d. 2011)
 1926 - Chuck Berry, American muisicker an componer (d. 2017)
 1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
 1927 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
 1930 - Flora Fraser, 21st Leddy Saltoun, Scots peer
 1938 - Ronnie Shade, Scots gowfer (d. 1986)
 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin o John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
 1945 - Sam Galbraith, Scots politeecian (d. 2014)
 1945 - Huell Howser, American enterteener (d. 2013)
 1950 - Om Puri, Indie actor (d. 2017)
 1956 - Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player
 1959 - Mauricio Funes, umwhile Preses o El Salvador
 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American muisicker an componer
 1967 - Finlay Carson, Scots politeecian
 1968 - Michael Stich, German tennis player
 1979 - Ne-Yo, American sangster
 1984 - Freida Pinto, Indie actress
 1984 - Lindsey Vonn, American skier
 1987 - Zac Efron, American sangster an actor
 1994 - John McGinn, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1417 - Pape Gregory XII (b. 1326)
 1503 - Pape Pius III (b. 1439)
 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen o Scots (b. 1489)
 1578 - Ferdinand, Prince o Asturies (b. 1571)
 1865 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscoont Palmerston, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1784)
 1869 - William Brand, Scots soleecitor, banker, botanist an plant collector (b. 1807)
 1871 - Charles Babbage, Inglis inventor (b. 1791)
 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
 1921 - Ludwig III o Bavarie (b. 1845)
 1930 - Alexander Munro MacRobert, Scots lawer an politeecan (b. 1873)
 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
 1939 - Henry Halcro Johnston, Scots botanist, medicinar an rugby union player (b. 1856)
 1948 - Margaret Hasluck, Scots geografer, linguist, epigrafer, airchaeologist an scholart (b. 1885)
 1977 - Hanns-Martin Schleyer, German businessman (b. 1915)
 2013 - Charlie Dickson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)

 Halidays 
 Alaska Day
 Persons Day (Canadae)

Category:Days o the year