This day in #History
October 18th
1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1667 – English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1672 – Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
1685 – French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants
1685 – Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 – Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery
1898 – American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1901 – Belgium’s Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
1908 – Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1912 – Beginning of 1st Balkan War
1912 – Italo-Turkish war end
1918 – Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 – Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1922 – British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
1932 – Belgium government of Renkin falls
1934 – Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1942 – Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
1944 – Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussel
1944 – Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW I
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1962 – Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1963 – IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1967 – Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1967 – Walt Disney’s “Jungle Book” is released
1973 – Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily
Leontief
1989 – Hungary revises constitution
2003 – Bolivian Gas War : President Gonzalo Sánchez
de Lozada , is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 – After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The samenight,suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto’sconvoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd,
including 20 police officers . Bhutto escaped uninjured.
2011 – Gilad Shalit is released.
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FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1595 – Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
1859 – Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927
1905 – Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, NewOrleans,Louisiana , assassin (JFK), (d . 1963
1960 – Jean- Claude Van Damme , Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer , No Retreat )
FAMOUS DEATHS
2007 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b .
1964)