October 18

Tuesday 18, 2005:

The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.

Saturday 18, 2003:

Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

Monday 18, 1993:

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

Tuesday 18, 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 executed and various RAF members commit suicide. The German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.

Friday 18, 1974:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.

Saturday 18, 1969:

Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possession of marijuana on Hawaii.

Friday 18, 1968:

A police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's flat finds 168 grains of marijuana. They later plead guilty and are fined £150.

Sunday 18, 1964:

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.

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

Wednesday 18, 1944:

Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

Sunday 18, 1925:

The Grand Ole Opry opens.

Wednesday 18, 1922:

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation)  is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

Friday 18, 1912:

The First Balkan War begins.

Sunday 18, 1908:

Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.

Tuesday 18, 1898:

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.

Friday 18, 1867:

United States takes possession of Alaska, celebrated annually in the state as (Alaska Day).

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.

Saturday 18, 1851:

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

Sunday 18, 1767:

Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed

Friday 18, 1748:

Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

Thursday 18, 1685:

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

Wednesday 18, 1561:

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts

Friday 18, 1016:

The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.

Wednesday 18, 1009:

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

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