1867
The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control.
| 1648 | The “shoemakers of Boston”–the first labor organization in what would become the United States–is authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |
| 1685 | The Edict of Nantes is lifted by King Louis XIV. The edict, signed at Nantes, France, by King Henry IV in 1598, gave the Huguenots religious liberty, civil rights and security. By revoking the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV abrogated their religious liberties. | |
| 1813 | The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig. | |
| 1867 | The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control. | |
| 1867 | The rules for American football are formulated at a meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities. | |
| 1910 | M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubs. | |
| 1912 | The First Balkan War breaks out between the members of the Balkan League–Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro–and the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1918 | Czechs seize Prague and renounce Hapsburg’s rule. | |
| 1921 | Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence. | |
| 1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters. | |
| 1944 | Lt. General Joseph Stilwell is recalled from China by president Franklin Roosevelt. | |
| 1945 | A group of the Venezuelan armed forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d’état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History] | |
| 1950 | The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there. | |
| 2003 | Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigns in the wake of protests centered around Bolivia’s natural gas resources. | |
| 2007 |
A suicide attack on a motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 139 and wounds 450; the subject of the attack, Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is not harmed.
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Born on October 18
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| 1896 | H.L. Davis, novelist and poet. | |
| 1904 | A.J. Liebling, journalist and author. | |
| 1926 | Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll performer. | |
| 1939 | Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1926 | Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams), poet, playwright and novelist. | |
| 1950 | Wendy Wasserstein, playwright (The Heidi Chronicles). | |
| 1951 | Terry McMillan, novelist (Waiting to Exhale). | |
| 1952 | Chuck Lorre (Charles Levine), TV writer, director, producer and composer. Created several successful sitcoms including Dharma & Greg and The Big Bang Theory. | |
| 1952 | Bao Ninh (Hoang Au Phuong), Vietnamese author known for his novel The Sorrow of War about the Vietnam War, in which he served. | |
| 1956 | Craig Bartlett, animator, writer; known for his work on Rugrats , Hey Arnold! and Dinosaur Train animated TV series. | |
| 1956 | Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakian-born tennis player; won a record 9 Wimbledon singles competitions. | |
| 1960 | Erin Moran, actress; best known for her role as Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days TV series and its spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi. | |
| 1960 | Jean-Claude Van Damme, martial artist, actor, director (Bloodsport, The Expendables 2). | |
| 1961 | Wynton Marsalis, Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter; presently (2016) artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. | |
| 1970 | Jose Padilla, American terrorist convicted of conspiring with overseas terrorists in death plots; held from May 8, 2002, as an enemy combatant, he was tried in a civilian court in 2006 | |
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