Today is Thursday, October 18, the 291st day of 2018. There are 74 days left in the year.
1685 — Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 — Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1776 — John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1776 — In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1867 — U.S. 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"
1892 — First 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 first Balkan War
1918 — NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn