Today is Tuesday, October 18, the 292nd day of 2016. There are 74days left in the year.
707 ― John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1016 ― Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
1648 ― 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1685 ― Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 ― Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1767 ― Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1776 ― Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1776 ― In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders cock tail
1862 ― Morgan’s raiders capture the federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1867 ― US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1873 ― Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1887 ― Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure A Case of Identity (BG)
1889 ― 1st all NYC world series NY Giants (NL) play Brooklyn (AA) (World Series #86)
1890 ― John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
1891 ― 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (MSG, NYC) begins
1892 ― 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 ― American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1908 ― Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1909 ― Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
1912 ― Beginning of the 1st Balkan War
1912 ― Italo-Turkish war ends
1922 ― British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established
1924 ― Harold Red Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1924 ― Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Herald Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1930 ― Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1944 ― Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1950 ― Connie Mack retires as manager of the A’s after 50 years
1953 ― Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1954 ― Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
1955 ― Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athlete
1960 ― Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
1960 ― In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News
1962 ― Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record Let’s Dance
1962 ― US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
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 the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1967 ― Walt Disney’s Jungle Book is released
1967 ― AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand the league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams
1968 ― Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
1968 ― Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
1968 ― Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko’s apt
1968 ― US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving black power salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1969 ― Federal govt bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1969 ― Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1973 ― Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1974 ― Wings (Country Hams) release Walking in the Park with Eloise
1974 ― Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
1977 ― 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch’s 15th
1977 ― Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth’s series record
1977 ― Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
1978 ― 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
1978 ― NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1979 Beatlemania opens in London
1980 ― Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double
1981 ― NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
1984 ― Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
1988 ― Israel’s supreme court uphold’s ban on Kahane’s Kach Party as racist
1989 ― US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit