Today in history – which major historical events happened on October 18? Who was born on this date, who died? In which year did the birth or death occur?
History 1/Jan/1881Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 2/Jan/1947Lord Bevin commented that with half of the population of beggars and thieves, India is ungovernable Nation 3/Jan/1925Benito Mussolini announces he will become dictator of Italy ...
This section presents significant events in Chinese history that occurred in the month of October. The Long March of the Central Red Army to the north following five offensives by the Kuomintang started on October 10, 1934. On October 19, 1950, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea...
The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Al Capone and a national wage increase: Here's a look back in time through The Associated Press photo archives.
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January 4th On this day in history in ... 1923 - Charlie Rentrop defeats Clarence Eklund for the World Light Heavyweight Title in Sheridan, Wyoming, ending Eklund's second reign. 1929 - Gus Sonnenberg defeats Ed "Strangler" Lewis to win the World Heavyweigh...
October 7 - Al Jazeera Investigations (2024) Hervé Jaubert Self 1 Volcanians Rothna Begum Self 1 ITV News at Ten (1967) David Beck Self 1 This World (2004) Jim Krane Self 1 History of Now: The Story of the Noughties (2010) Mobeen Azhar Reporter 1 Hometown (20...
October 1, 1949 - The People's Republic of China was founded with Mao Zedong as Chairman. October 1, 1979 - After 70 years of American control, the Panama Canal Zone was formally handed over to Panama. Birthday - Virtuoso pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989) was born in Berdichev, ...
1969—Dr. Clifton R. Whartonbecomes the first Black in the 20th century to head a major, predominantly White university when he is named president of Michigan State University. October 18 1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Ch...
The glorious historyNighty-five years ago, in 1927, the forerunner to the PLA was founded by the Communist Party of China (CPC), amid a reign of "white terror" unleashed by the Kuomintang, in which thousands of communists and their sympathizers were killed. Originally called the "...