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The 18t o October is the 291t day o the year (292t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 74 days bidin.

Events

1016 - The Dens defeat the Saxons in the Battle o Assandun, givin them control ower maist o Ingland.
1356 - Basel, Swisserland, is destroyed bi a yirdquauk.
1685 - Louis XIV o Fraunce abandons the Edict o Nantes, causin mony Huguenots tae flee the kintra.
1818 - The Varsity o Bonn is foondit.
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published.
1867 - Alaska is offeecially transferred frae Roushie tae the Unitit States.
1906 - A major fire destroys twa prominent biggins in Akureyri, Iceland.
1922 - The BBC is foondit.
1967 - The Soviet Union's Venera 4 probe sends the first foto frae unner the atmosphere on Venus.
1977 - German Hairst: Murther o German businessman Hanns-Martin Schleyer an alleged suicides o fower Reid Airmy Faction members.
1989 - Erich Honecker resigns as leader o East Germany.
1989 - The Galileo spacecraft is launched tae Jupiter.
1991 - Azerbaijan declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
2007 - A bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan kills 139 fowk.
2011 - Israeli sodger Gilad Shalit is released bi Palestinian captors in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian preesoners bein released bi Israel.
2015 - Scotland are controversially knockit oot o the 2015 Rugby Warld Cup in Ingland wi a nairrae defeat tae Australie.
2019 - At least 62 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
2019 - Jessica Meir an Christina Koch perform the first aw-female spacewalk.

1417 - Pape Gregory XII (b. 1326)
1503 - Pape Pius III (b. 1439)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen o Scots (b. 1489)
1578 - Ferdinand, Prince o Asturies (b. 1571)
1865 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscoont Palmerston, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1784)
1869 - William Brand, Scots soleecitor, banker, botanist an plant collector (b. 1807)
1871 - Charles Babbage, Inglis inventor (b. 1791)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1921 - Ludwig III o Bavarie (b. 1845)
1930 - Alexander Munro MacRobert, Scots lawer an politeecan (b. 1873)
1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
1939 - Henry Halcro Johnston, Scots botanist, medicinar an rugby union player (b. 1856)
1948 - Margaret Hasluck, Scots geografer, linguist, epigrafer, airchaeologist an scholart (b. 1885)
1977 - Hanns-Martin Schleyer, German businessman (b. 1915)
2013 - Charlie Dickson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)