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2005-10-18

On this day in History - Oct. 18

0033 - Agripina dies. Calígula's mother
0707 - Pope John VII dies
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1035 - Sancho III of Navarre dies
1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa was born (d. 1192). Emperor of Japan.
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV
1405 - Pope Pius II was born (d. 1464)
1417 - Pope Gregory XII dies
1442 - João Duque de Aveiro dies (b. 13 Jan 1400). Prince of Portugal, son of the King D. João I and Queen Filipa de Lencastre.
1503 - Pope Pius III dies (b. 1439)
1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega was born (d. 1570). Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil.
1545 - John Taverner dies. English composer
1547 - Justus Lipsius was born (d. 1606). Flemish humanist.
1558 - Maria of Austria dies (b. 1505). Queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia.
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius dies (b. 1520). German physician and mathematician.
1569 - Giambattista Marini was born (d. 1625). Italian poet.
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega dies (b. 1517). Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil.
1595 - Edward Winslow was born (d. 1655). Plymouth Colony founder.
1604 - Igram van Achelen dies (b. 1528). Dutch statesman.
1634 - Luca Giordano was born (d. 1705). Italian artist.
1646 - Isaac Jogues dies (b. 1607). French Jesuit missionary.
1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck was born (d. 1713). Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
1662 - Matthew Henry was born (d. 1714). English non-conformist minister
1667 - Fasilidos dies. Emperor of Ethiopia
1668 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1694)
1678 - Jacob Jordaens dies (b. 1593). Flemish painter.
1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr. was born (d. 1716). American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials.
1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants
1701 - Charles le Beau was born (d. 1778). French historian
1706 - Baldassare Galuppi was born (d. 1785). Italian composer.
1739 - António José da Silva (O Judeu / The Jewish) dies (b. 1705). Brazilian-born Portuguese dramatist.
1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was born (d. 1803). French general and author.
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough dies (b. 1660). English friend of Anne of England
1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed
1777 - Heinrich von Kleist was born (d. 1811). German writer.
1785 - Thomas Love Peacock was born (d. 1866). English satirist.
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul dies (b. 1763). French composer.
1817 - Gomes Freire de Andrade dies hanged at Forte de São Julião da Barra (b. 27 Jan 1757). Portuguese militar.
1842 - Walhalla temple near Regensburg at the Danube is inaugurated
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1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1859 - Henri Bergson was born (d. 1941). French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1860 - Casimiro de Abreu dies (4 Jan 1839). Brazilian poet.
1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska, celebrated annually in the state as (Alaska Day).
1871 - Charles Babbage dies (b. 1791). English mathematician and inventor.
1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi was born (d. 1951). Prime Minister of Italy.
1886 - Amílcar Ramada Curto dies (b. 1961). Portuguese writer.
1893 - Charles Gounod dies (b. 1818). French composer (Faust, Romeo et Juliette).
1893 - Georges Ohsawa was born (d. 1966). Japanese founder of Macrobiotics.
1898 - Lotte Lenya was born (d. 1981). Austrian singer and actress.
1898 - Shin'ichi Suzuki was born (d. 1998). Japanese violinist.
1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1898 - Leopoldo Neves de Almeida was born in Lisbon. Portuguese sculptor.
1902 - Miriam Hopkins was born (d. 1972). American actress.
1903 - Lina Radke was born (d. 1983). German athlete.
1906 - James Brooks was born (d. 1992). American painter.
1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
1909 - Norberto Bobbio was born (d. 2004). Italian philosopher and legal theorist.
1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born. Indian guru
1911 - Alfred Binet dies (b. 1857). French psychologist.
1912 - The First Balkan War begins.
1913 - Robert Gilruth was born (d. 2000). American aviation and space pioneer.
1915 - Grande Otelo (Sebastião Bernardes de Sousa Prata) was born in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. Brazilian actor.
1918 - Bobby Troup was born (d. 1999). American musician.
1919 - Madrid opened a subway system.
1919 - Anita O'Day was born. American singer
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born (d. 2000). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1920 - Melina Mercouri was born (d. 1994). Greek actress.
1921 - Jesse Helms was born. U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria dies (b. 1845)
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens.
1926 - Chuck Berry was born. American musician
1926 - Klaus Kinski was born (d. 1991). German actor.
1927 - George C. Scott was born (d. 1999). American actor.
1928 - Keith Jackson was born. American football commentator
1928 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster was born. Canadian musician
1929 - Violeta Chamorro was born. President of Nicaragua
1931 - Thomas Edison dies (b. 1847). American inventor.
1934 - Inger Stevens was born (d. 1970). Swedish actress.
1934 - Chuck Swindoll was born. American evangelist
1935 - Peter Boyle was born. American actor
1939 - Mike Ditka was born. American football player, coach, and commentator
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald was born (d. 1963). American assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes dies (b. 1862). President of Portuguese Republic (1923 - 1925) and writer.
1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
1944 - Nelson Freire was born. Brazilian pianist.
1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1945 - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1946 - Howard Shore was born. Canadian film composer
1947 - Joe Morton was born. American actor
1947 - Laura Nyro was born (d. 1997). American singer and songwriter.
1948 - Ntozake Shange was born. American author
1949 - George Hendrick was born. Baseball player
1950 - Om Puri was born. Indian actor
1950 - Wendy Wasserstein was born. American playwright
1951 - Terry McMillan was born, American author
1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
1955 - José Ortega y Gasset dies (b. 1883). Spanish philosopher
1956 - Martina Navratilova was born. Czech-born tennis player. Wimbledon winner (1989, 79, 82-87).
1959 - Boughera El Ouafi dies. Algerian athlete
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was born. Belgian actor
1961 - Wynton Marsalis was born. American musician
1962 - Dr. James D. Watson of the United States and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins (d.2004) of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1963 - Cláudio Carneyro dies (b. 27 Jan 1895). Portuguese composer.
Son of the great painter António Carneiro and Rosa Queiroz Costa, Cláudio Carneyro was born on 27 January 1895, in Rua do Bonfim, Porto.
1964 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
1966 - Elizabeth Arden dies. American industrialist.
1966 - Angela Visser was born in Netherland. Miss Universe 1989
1967 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe
1968 - A police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's flat finds 168 grains of marijuana. They later plead guilty and are fined £150.
1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
1968 - Michael Stich was born. German tennis star
1969 - Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possession of marijuana on Hawaii.
1969 - Álvaro Henríquez was borm. Chilean misician.
1973 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1974 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.
1975 - Al Lettieri dies (b. 1928). American Actor.
1975 - Rebeca Tamez was born. Miss Mexico Universe 1997
1976 - Azlea Antistia was born. American actress
1977 - German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members commit suicide. The (West) German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
1977 - O filme Trás-os-Montes, dos realizadores António Reis e Margarida Martins Cordeiro, conquista o grande prémio da XXVI Semana Internacional de Cinema de Mannheim.
1981 - Poland General Jaruzelski was elected party leader.
1981 - Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
1982 - Bess Truman dies (b. 1885). First Lady of the United States.
1983 - Willie Jones dies (b. 1925). Baseball player.
1989 - East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
1989 - Hungary revises constitution
1993 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
1998 - In Oporto, Portugal, 21 member nations met for the Ibero-American summit. 19 Latin American countries were represented along with Spain and Portugal. A document was prepared urging the industrialized nations to help stave off economic recession / A Cimeira Ibero-Americana é aberta, no Porto, com a presença dos chefes de estado e de governo dos paises latino-americanos.
2000 - Julie London dies (b. 1926). American singer and actress.
2000 - Gwen Verdon dies (b. 1925). American dancer and actress.
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer dies (b. 1922). French athlete and musician.
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, dies (b. 1932). Cosmonaut.
2002 - Roman Tam dies (b. 1950). Hong Kong singer.
2003 - Preston Smith dies (b. 1912). Governor of Texas.
2005 - The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.
2004 - Veerappan dies (b. 1945). Indian bandit and smuggler.
Anglican communion, Roman Catholic Church, et al - Feast of Saint Luke
Alaska: Alaska Day


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Hola Amigo, que partido dificil tienen hoy contra el Villareal, la única forma de poder ganar, será si pueden neutralizar el manejo de pelota de Roman Riquelme y controlar las subidas de Juampi Sorin. Saludos y Suerte.