A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on October 18 throughout history.
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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
French King Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, canceling the rights of French Protestants
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $132 million in 2024).
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
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]
The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was the commercial forerunner of the public British Broadcasting Corporation and formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies...
First performance of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky, often called the "Great American Symphony"
US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony
Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (49) weds his mistress Rosa Vercellana (36) in Italy
Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou
Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico
Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage
Pope John VII (Latin: Ioannes VII; c. 650 – 18 October 707) was the bishop of Rome from 1 March 705 to his death on 18 October 707.
Danes led by Cnut defeat the Saxon forces of Edmund Ironside at the Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon), completing their conquest of England
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (modern Durrës, Albania)
Ukrainian city of Chernihiv surrenders, but despite this, it is still sacked and pillaged by the Mongolian army of Batu
The most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps destroys Basel in Switzerland
Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the river Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
New pursuit of French protestants
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflict
John Hawkins begins his second trip to America
The Spanish Fury (or the Spanish Terror) was a number of violent sackings of cities (lootings) in the Low Countries or Benelux, mostly by Spanish Habsburg armies, that happened in the years 1572–1579...
First labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
English fleet plunders Surinamese plantations
Treaty of Buchach ends the first phase of the Polish–Ottoman War between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire
The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of...
Premiere of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" (The Village Soothsayer) before the royal court at Fontainebleau, France
The Mason–Dixon line, sometimes referred to as Mason and Dixon's Line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia.
Battle of Pelham: Colonel John Glover and the Marblehead Regiment meet British forces in the Bronx
45 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, and organize the Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women's clubs in America
The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the...
Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General...
Charleston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers, it is the county seat of Kanawha County.
Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale set rules for collegiate football
Anti-socialist laws are ratified in Germany
First commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York
The flag of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Bandera de Puerto Rico), officially the Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Flag of the Free...
Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities toward women's rights
From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.
Count de Lambert of France sets an airplane altitude record of 300 meters
The Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt (German: Schönstatt-Bewegung) is a Catholic Marian movement founded in Germany in 1914 by Fr Joseph Kentenich, who saw the movement as a means of spiritual...
The Battles of the Isonzo (also known as the Isonzo Front by historians, or the Soča Front; Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in...
The Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence or the Washington Declaration (Czech: Washingtonská deklarace; Slovak: Washingtonská deklarácia; German: Washingtoner Erklärung; Hungarian: Washingtoni...
Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in a round trip of 9 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes, and 12 seconds; the race costs 9 lives with 54 crashes or forced landings
Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for Crimea
Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American college and professional football halfback who played for...
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world.
Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th home run of the season
In the landmark "Persons Case," Canada's highest court of appeal declares that the word "person" includes women
Joseph Sylvester becomes the first jockey to win seven races in one day
Belgian government of Renkin falls
Kaufman & Hart's "George Washington Slept Here" premieres in New York City
Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both...
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War during World War II.
Paul Leroy Robeson ( ROHB-sən; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his...
USSR performs a nuclear test
Mad (stylized in all caps) is an American humor magazine which was launched in 1952 and currently published by DC Comics, a unit of the DC Entertainment subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Willie Thrower becomes the first Black NFL quarterback in modern times
Hurricane Hazel becomes the most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in the US and Canada
Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II (19 November 1924 – 21 November 1969) was a Ugandan royal and statesman who served as the first president of Uganda from 1962...
Emergency crisis declared in South Vietnam due to communist attack
The International Olympic Committee votes for Mexico City to host the 1968 Olympics
Australian swimmer Kevin Berry sets a world record of 2:06.6 to beat American Carl Robie by 0.9 seconds and win the men's 200 m butterfly gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
MLB American League votes to allow Kansas City Athletics to move to Oakland, California and expand the league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams, later accelerated to 1969 due to pressure from Kansas City politicians
A rare Australian 1-2 in track and field as Maureen Caird, with an Olympic record of 10.39 seconds, beats teammate Pam Kilborn by 0.07 seconds to win the 80 m hurdles at the Mexico City Games
Police find 219 grams of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, and they are fined £150 for marijuana possession
Faces are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. They formed after Small Faces lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie, and the remaining Small Faces— bassist Ronnie...
Sachio Kinugasa begins a 2,215 consecutive game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Congress authorizes bicentennial quarter, half-dollar, and dollar coins
American R&B singer Al Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, dies by suicide at his Memphis home after assaulting him with a pot of boiling grits at age 29
Simon & Garfunkel were an American musical duo comprising the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling musical acts of the 1960s.
The 1977 New York Yankees season was the 75th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 100–62 and won the World Series.
NY Islanders first scoreless tie vs. LA Kings
Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots, setting an NBA record (double OT)
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996.
Discovery moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-51A mission
6.6 magnitude earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
STS-58 was a NASA mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1993.
The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They began play in the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972.
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991.
Crude oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
The Bolivian Gas War (Spanish: Guerra del Gas) or Bolivian gas conflict was a social confrontation in Bolivia reaching its peak in 2003, centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural...
British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers' Championship
Quarterback Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
Gilad Shalit is an Israeli former soldier who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border.
Google stock trading is suspended after the premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are honored for their work with fashion label The Row at the WSJ Magazine's Innovator of the Year Awards in New York City
Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to decline a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan international cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in the T20I format.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former...
Charges of disorderly conduct are officially dropped against participants of the 1939 equal rights protest sit-in at Alexandria (Virginia) Library [1]
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian former politician, banker, and economist who served as the 67th president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025.
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso declares a 60-day state of emergency in response to a violent crime wave caused by a power struggle between drug cartels
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
At least 500 Palestinians are killed in an explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip, with local officials blaming an Israeli missile attack and Israelis blaming a misfired Palestinian rocket [1]
Cuba's power grid shuts down after a major power station fails, leaving 10 million people without power and closing schools and businesses [1]
Eugene of Savoy, Austrian military commander in the service of austria, known for military commander in the service of austria, was born on 1663-10-18.
Sidney Holland is born
Lee Harvey Oswald assassin of john f. kennedy, known for assassin of john f. kennedy, was born on 1939-10-18. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S.
Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1950-10-18. Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright.
George C. Scott, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1927-10-18. George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor.
Peter Boyle, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1935-10-18. Peter Richard Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor.
Dawn Wells, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1938-10-18. Dawn Elberta Wells (October 18, 1938 – December 30, 2020) was an American actress.
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor and martial artist, known for belgian actor and martial artist, was born on 1961-10-18.
Mike Ditka, American athlete, known for american football player, coach, and commentator, was born on 1940-10-18.
Martina Navratilova, American athlete, known for czech-american former tennis player, was born on 1957-10-18. Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player.
Thomas Hearns, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1959-10-18. Thomas Hearns is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006.
Lindsey Vonn, American athlete, known for american alpine skier, was born on 1985-10-18. Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny is born
Zohran Mamdani is born
Pope John VII (Latin: Ioannes VII; c. 650 – 18 October 707) was the bishop of Rome from 1 March 705 to his death on 18 October 707.
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
Danes led by Cnut defeat the Saxon forces of Edmund Ironside at the Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon), completing their conquest of England
Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (modern Durrës, Albania)
Ukrainian city of Chernihiv surrenders, but despite this, it is still sacked and pillaged by the Mongolian army of Batu
The most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps destroys Basel in Switzerland
Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a state (Land) in Southwest Germany, east of the river Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
New pursuit of French protestants
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflict
John Hawkins begins his second trip to America
The Spanish Fury (or the Spanish Terror) was a number of violent sackings of cities (lootings) in the Low Countries or Benelux, mostly by Spanish Habsburg armies, that happened in the years 1572–1579...
First labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
Eugene of Savoy, Austrian military commander in the service of austria, known for military commander in the service of austria, was born on 1663-10-18.
English fleet plunders Surinamese plantations
Treaty of Buchach ends the first phase of the Polish–Ottoman War between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire
French King Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, canceling the rights of French Protestants
The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of...
Premiere of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" (The Village Soothsayer) before the royal court at Fontainebleau, France
The Mason–Dixon line, sometimes referred to as Mason and Dixon's Line, is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia.
Battle of Pelham: Colonel John Glover and the Marblehead Regiment meet British forces in the Bronx
45 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, and organize the Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women's clubs in America
The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the...
Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General...
Charleston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers, it is the county seat of Kanawha County.
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $132 million in 2024).
Sardinia king Victor Emmanuel II (49) weds his mistress Rosa Vercellana (36) in Italy
Charles Babbage, English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer, known for english mathematician, philosopher, and engineer, died on 1871-10-18.
Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale set rules for collegiate football
Anti-socialist laws are ratified in Germany
First commercial long-distance phone line opens between Chicago and New York
Sidney Holland is born
The flag of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Bandera de Puerto Rico), officially the Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Flag of the Free...
Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities toward women's rights
Félix Houphouët-Boigny is born
From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.
Count de Lambert of France sets an airplane altitude record of 300 meters
The Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt (German: Schönstatt-Bewegung) is a Catholic Marian movement founded in Germany in 1914 by Fr Joseph Kentenich, who saw the movement as a means of spiritual...
The Battles of the Isonzo (also known as the Isonzo Front by historians, or the Soča Front; Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in...
The Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence or the Washington Declaration (Czech: Washingtonská deklarace; Slovak: Washingtonská deklarácia; German: Washingtoner Erklärung; Hungarian: Washingtoni...
Belvin Maynard wins the first transcontinental air race in a round trip of 9 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes, and 12 seconds; the race costs 9 lives with 54 crashes or forced landings
Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for Crimea
The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was the commercial forerunner of the public British Broadcasting Corporation and formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies...
Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American college and professional football halfback who played for...
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world.
Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th home run of the season
Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou
George C. Scott, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1927-10-18. George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor.
In the landmark "Persons Case," Canada's highest court of appeal declares that the word "person" includes women
Joseph Sylvester becomes the first jockey to win seven races in one day
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
Belgian government of Renkin falls
Peter Boyle, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1935-10-18. Peter Richard Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor.
Dawn Wells, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1938-10-18. Dawn Elberta Wells (October 18, 1938 – December 30, 2020) was an American actress.
Lee Harvey Oswald assassin of john f. kennedy, known for assassin of john f. kennedy, was born on 1939-10-18. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S.
Kaufman & Hart's "George Washington Slept Here" premieres in New York City
Mike Ditka, American athlete, known for american football player, coach, and commentator, was born on 1940-10-18.
Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both...
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War during World War II.
Paul Leroy Robeson ( ROHB-sən; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his...
First performance of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky, often called the "Great American Symphony"
Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1950-10-18. Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright.
USSR performs a nuclear test
Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico
Mad (stylized in all caps) is an American humor magazine which was launched in 1952 and currently published by DC Comics, a unit of the DC Entertainment subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Willie Thrower becomes the first Black NFL quarterback in modern times
Hurricane Hazel becomes the most severe to ever hit the US, killing 195 in the US and Canada
Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II (19 November 1924 – 21 November 1969) was a Ugandan royal and statesman who served as the first president of Uganda from 1962...
Martina Navratilova, American athlete, known for czech-american former tennis player, was born on 1957-10-18. Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player.
Thomas Hearns, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1959-10-18. Thomas Hearns is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006.
Emergency crisis declared in South Vietnam due to communist attack
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor and martial artist, known for belgian actor and martial artist, was born on 1961-10-18.
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]
The International Olympic Committee votes for Mexico City to host the 1968 Olympics
Australian swimmer Kevin Berry sets a world record of 2:06.6 to beat American Carl Robie by 0.9 seconds and win the men's 200 m butterfly gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
MLB American League votes to allow Kansas City Athletics to move to Oakland, California and expand the league to 12 teams in 1971 with Kansas City and Seattle teams, later accelerated to 1969 due to pressure from Kansas City politicians
US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony
A rare Australian 1-2 in track and field as Maureen Caird, with an Olympic record of 10.39 seconds, beats teammate Pam Kilborn by 0.07 seconds to win the 80 m hurdles at the Mexico City Games
Police find 219 grams of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, and they are fined £150 for marijuana possession
Faces are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. They formed after Small Faces lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie, and the remaining Small Faces— bassist Ronnie...
Sachio Kinugasa begins a 2,215 consecutive game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Congress authorizes bicentennial quarter, half-dollar, and dollar coins
American R&B singer Al Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, dies by suicide at his Memphis home after assaulting him with a pot of boiling grits at age 29
Simon & Garfunkel were an American musical duo comprising the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling musical acts of the 1960s.
The 1977 New York Yankees season was the 75th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 100–62 and won the World Series.
NY Islanders first scoreless tie vs. LA Kings
Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots, setting an NBA record (double OT)
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996.
Discovery moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-51A mission
Lindsey Vonn, American athlete, known for american alpine skier, was born on 1985-10-18. Lindsey Caroline Vonn is an American alpine ski racer.
6.6 magnitude earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
Zohran Mamdani is born
STS-58 was a NASA mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 18, 1993.
The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They began play in the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972.
Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991.
Crude oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
The Bolivian Gas War (Spanish: Guerra del Gas) or Bolivian gas conflict was a social confrontation in Bolivia reaching its peak in 2003, centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural...
British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers' Championship
Quarterback Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
Gilad Shalit is an Israeli former soldier who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border.
Google stock trading is suspended after the premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are honored for their work with fashion label The Row at the WSJ Magazine's Innovator of the Year Awards in New York City
Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to decline a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria
Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan international cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in the T20I format.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former...
Charges of disorderly conduct are officially dropped against participants of the 1939 equal rights protest sit-in at Alexandria (Virginia) Library [1]
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian former politician, banker, and economist who served as the 67th president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025.
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso declares a 60-day state of emergency in response to a violent crime wave caused by a power struggle between drug cartels
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
At least 500 Palestinians are killed in an explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip, with local officials blaming an Israeli missile attack and Israelis blaming a misfired Palestinian rocket [1]
Cuba's power grid shuts down after a major power station fails, leaving 10 million people without power and closing schools and businesses [1]