October 18 in history
Events on October 18
Notable events that happened on October 18 in past years.
- 2019
NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
Wikipedia article: NASA Astronaut Corps - 1993
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-58 to perform life sciences research.
Wikipedia article: Space Shuttle Columbia - 1989
A Ilyushin Il-76 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes into the Caspian Sea near Sumgait, killing 57.
Wikipedia article: Ilyushin Il-76 - 1977
German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
Wikipedia article: German Autumn - 1945
The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Wikipedia article: Soviet Union - 1944
World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
Wikipedia article: Erwin Rommel - 1914
The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
Wikipedia article: Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement - 1898
The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
Wikipedia article: Puerto Rico - 1860
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Wikipedia article: Second Opium War - 1775
American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
Wikipedia article: American Revolutionary War - 1599
Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
Wikipedia article: Michael the Brave - 1540
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
Wikipedia article: Hernando de Soto - 1281
Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
Wikipedia article: Pope Martin IV - 1009
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
- 33
Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.
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