October 18

Monday 18, 1993:

Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.

Monday 18, 1954:

Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio

Thursday 18, 1945:

The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday 18, 1860:

The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

Thursday 18, 1685:

Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants

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