• <a title="1009" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1009">
  1009</a> - 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.
• 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
• 1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV
• 1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland
  
• 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
• 1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
• 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants
• 1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
• 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
• 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
• 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
• 1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
• 1912 - The First Balkan War begins.
• 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.
• 1924 - University of Illinois Fighting Illini college football halfback Red Grange scores four touchdowns in the first quarter of a game against the University of Michigan Wolverines.
  
  
• 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens.
• 1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under law in Canada.
• 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
• 1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
  
• 1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1945 - A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who was definitely overthrown by the end of the day.
• 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
• 1964 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
  
  
• 1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• 1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
• 1968 - Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
  
• 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 allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
• 1989 - East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
  
  

1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR

• 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
  
  

<h2><span>[edit]</span> <span>Births
</span></h2>

• <a title="1127" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1127">
  
  1127</a> - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
• 1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
• 1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
• 1547 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
• 1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
• 1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
  
  1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
• 1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
  
  
• 1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
• 1668 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
  
• 1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
• 1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
• 1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
• 1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
• 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
  
• 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
• 1854 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
• 1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
• 1865 - Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
• 1865 - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
• 1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
• 1870 - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
  
  
• 1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
• 1882 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
• 1893 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
• 1894 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
• 1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
• 1900 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
  
• 1902 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
• 1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
• 1906 - James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
  
• 1909 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
• 1913 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
• 1915 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1918 - Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1919 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
  
  
• 1919 - Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
• 1921 - Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• 1924 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
• 1925 - Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
  
  
• 1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
• 1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
• 1927 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
• 1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
  
• 1931 - Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
• 1932 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
• 1933 - Forrest Gregg, American football player
• 1934 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
• 1934 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
  
  
• 1935 - Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1937 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress
• 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
• 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
  
  
• 1939 - Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1942 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
• 1945 - Chris Shays, Member of the United States Congress from Connecticut
• 1945 - Huell Howser, American TV host
  
• 1945 - Yildo, Turkish famous showman and football player
• 1946 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
• 1946 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
• 1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
• 1947 - Joe Morton, American actor
• 1947 - Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1947 - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
• 1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author
  
  
• 1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
• 1949 - George Hendrick, baseball player
• 1949 - Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
• 1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor
• 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
• 1951 - Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
  
• 1951 - Terry McMillan, American author
• 1951 - Pam Dawber, American actress
• 1952 - B?o Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
• 1952 - Jerry Royster, American baseball player
• 1954 - Liz Burch, Australian actress
• 1955 - Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
• 1955 - Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
• 1956 - Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
  
• 1956 - Craig Bartlett, American animator
• 1956 - Jim Talent, American senator from Missouri
• 1957 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
• 1957 - Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko)
• 1958 - Thomas Hearns, American boxer
• 1958 - Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman
• 1959 - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
  
• 1959 - Milco Mancevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
• 1959 - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
• 1959 - Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host
• 1959 - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
• 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
• 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American musician
• 1961 - Rick Moody, American author +
  
  
• 1961 - Erin Moran American actress
• 1962 - Vincent Spano, American actor
• 1964 - Dan Lilker, American musician, bassist for Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth
• 1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
• 1970 - José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
• 1970 - Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
• 1972 - Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
• 1973 - Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
• 1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
  
• 1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
• 1974 - Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• 1975 - Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 - Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
• 1977 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
• 1978 - Wesley Jonathan, American actor
  
  
• 1982 - Ne-Yo, American singer
• 1984 - John Greatrix, Canadian Ontario Energy Savings, and Upcoming MMA Fighter
• 1987 - Zac Efron, American actor
• 1987 - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
• 1990 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
• 1990 - John Lindesmith, American gangsta
  
  

1998 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress

• 2001 - Annelise Manojlovic, English actress
  
  

<h2><span>[edit]</span> <span>Deaths
</span></h2>

• <a title="707" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/707">
  
  707</a> - Pope John VII
• 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
• 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
• 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
• 1417 - Pope Gregory XII
• 1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
• 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
  
  
• 1545 - John Taverner, English composer
• 1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
• 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
• 1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
• 1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
• 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
  
• 1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
• 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
• 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
• 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
  
• 1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
• 1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
• 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
• 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
• 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
• 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
• 1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
• 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
• 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
• 1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
• 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
• 1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
• 1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
• 1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
  
• 1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
• 1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
• 1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
• 1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
  • Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
  • Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
  • Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
• 1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
• 1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
• 1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907)
• 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
  
• 1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
• 1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
• 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
• 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
• 2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
• 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
• 2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
  
• 2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
• 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
• 2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
• 2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
  

<h2><span>[edit]</span> <span>Holidays and observances</span></h2>

• R.C. Church, Anglican communion, et alii - Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist
• Also see October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• USA : Alaska: Alaska Day
• French Republican Calendar - Piment (Chili Pepper) Day, twenty-seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire
  
  

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1995</SPAN>Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1995</SPAN><SPAN class=body> NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
</SPAN>

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1993</SPAN><SPAN class=body> STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 22 performances </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st non-U.S. team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4 </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1992</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, vs. India at Harare </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1991</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1991</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1990</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 469 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Hungary revises constitution </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1989</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1988</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1988</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
</SPAN>

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1984</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1984</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1981</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1980</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1980</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Beatlemania" opens in London </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1979</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1978</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F. Vance
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1978</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs Los Angeles Kings </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New York Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1977</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1976</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1975</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1975</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1974</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1974</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1974</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1974</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1973</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Raisin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 847 performances
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1973</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1973</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in New York City </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1973</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1970</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1970</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Rod Stewart joins Small Faces </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1969</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Soyuz 8 returns to Earth </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29'2 ") in Mexico City
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1968</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1967</SPAN><SPAN class=body> AL votes to allow Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland and expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1966</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 463 performances </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1964</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1963</SPAN><SPAN class=body> IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1962</SPAN><SPAN class=body> John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1962</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1962</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1962</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1962</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1961</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1960</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1960</SPAN><SPAN class=body> In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
</SPAN>

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1955</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Track and Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1955</SPAN><SPAN class=body> University of California discovers anti-proton </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1954</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1954</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, South Carolina (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
</SPAN>

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1954</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (New York City) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1953</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1953</SPAN><SPAN class=body> WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1953</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1952</SPAN><SPAN class=body> "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 7 performances </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1952</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1951</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1950</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1948</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1946</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1945</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1945</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1944</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1944</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1943</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1942</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1941</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1940</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in New York City </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1939</SPAN><SPAN class=body> R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in New York City
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1934</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1932</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Belgium government of Renkin falls </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1930</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1926</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1925</SPAN><SPAN class=body> French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1925</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1924</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1924</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1922</SPAN><SPAN class=body> British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1918</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1918</SPAN><SPAN class=body> NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1918</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1915</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1913</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia and Albania leave </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1912</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Beginning of 1st Balkan War
</SPAN>

<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1912</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Italo-Turkish war ends </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1910</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Edward Forster publishes "Howards End" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1909</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1908</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Belgium annexes Congo Free State </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1904</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1901</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1898</SPAN><SPAN class=body> American flag raised in Puerto Rico </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1892</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1891</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st international 6-day bicycle race in U.S. (MSG, New York City) begins </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1890</SPAN><SPAN class=body> John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1889</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st all New York City World Series New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA)
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1887</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1878</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Edison makes electricity available for household usage </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1873</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1873</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1869</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1867</SPAN><SPAN class=body> U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1863</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Battle of Charlestown, West Virginia </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1862</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1855</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1776</SPAN><SPAN class=body> In a New York bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1776</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1767</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Boundary between MD and PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1752</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1748</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1685</SPAN><SPAN class=body> French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1685</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1672</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1667</SPAN><SPAN class=body> English fleet plunders Suriname plantations </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1648</SPAN><SPAN class=body> 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1622</SPAN><SPAN class=body> French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1572</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Spanish troops attack Maastricht </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1564</SPAN><SPAN class=body> John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1534</SPAN><SPAN class=body> New pursuit of French protestants
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1267</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1210</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1081</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine
</SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 1016</SPAN><SPAN class=body> Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) </SPAN>
<SPAN class=bodybold>October 18, 707</SPAN><SPAN class=body> John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope </SPAN>

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=468 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1685</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1767</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1867</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1892</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1898</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the United States.


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1931</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at age 84 in West Orange, N.J.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1944</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1950</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Connie Mack announced he was retiring after 50 seasons as manager of baseball's Philadelphia Athletics.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1962</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Dr. James D. Watson of the United States, and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1968</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.



</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1969</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they cause cancer in laboratory rats.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1977</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees became the second player to hit three home runs in a World Series game as he led New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1977</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1982</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Former first lady Bess Truman died in Independence, Mo., at age 97.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>1989</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2001</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2001</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=60>2006</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left>The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

keep the non model ones coming. these are great

NOT safe for work so you know not to open it in front of anyone who would get upset

ty for the kind words

it really helps to know that people are reading the threads and enjoying them

Your the man slugger

Where can i find more of this chick?

Very nice. Once again you made the little guy stir.

i have 3 other shots i believe unfortunately i don't knowher name