Major Events
- 1009 Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the church’s foundations down to the bedrock
- 1685 French King Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, canceling the rights of French Protestants
- 1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, after paying $7.2 million in the Alaska Purchase
- 1931 Gangster Al Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion against him, later fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in prison
- 1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK), and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA [1]
Oct 18 in Film & TV
- 1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded, later known as British Broadcasting Corporation
Oct 18 in Music
- 1946 First performance of Aaron Copland‘s Third Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky, often called the “Great American Symphony”
Oct 18 in Sport
Did You Know?
Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famously referring to Germany’s need for a ‘place in the sun’ and a global empire
Fun Fact About October 18
In a bar decorated with bird tail in Elmsford, New York, a customer requests a glassful of “those cock tails” from bartender Betsy Flanagan
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