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What are the important events that happened on October 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 18 is the 292nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 5, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,820,160 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontadigon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 103 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,319 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 18 Historical Events
- 1851 –Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
- 1945 –Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 1967 –The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 2003 –Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1931 –Ien Dales, Dutch politician and mayor (d. 1994)
- 1958 –Thomas Hearns, American boxer
- 1961 –Rick Moody, American author
- 1970 –Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
- 1982 –Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
Who died on October 18?
- 1545 –John Taverner, English composer
- 1886 –Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
- 1893 –Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
- 1966 –Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
- 1984 –Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
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