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| October 18th, 2007 (October 18 2007) | Event | After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto s convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured. | |
| October 18th, 2007 (October 18 2007) | Death | Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (born in 1938) | Alan Coren Quotes |
| October 18th, 2007 (October 18 2007) | Death | William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (born in 1925) | |
| October 18th, 2007 (October 18 2007) | Death | Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (born in 1915) | |
| October 18th, 2007 (October 18 2007) | Death | Lucky Dube, South African musician (born in 1964) | |
| October 18th, 2006 (October 18 2006) | Death | Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (born in 1929) | |
| October 18th, 2006 (October 18 2006) | Death | Anna Russell, English music satirist (born in 1911) | |
| October 18th, 2005 (October 18 2005) | Death | John Hollis, British actor (born in 1931) | |
| October 18th, 2005 (October 18 2005) | Death | Johnny Haynes, English footballer (born in 1934) | |
| October 18th, 2005 (October 18 2005) | Death | Bill King, American sports broadcaster (born in 1927) | |
| October 18th, 2004 (October 18 2004) | Death | Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (born in 1945) | |
| October 18th, 2003 (October 18 2003) | Event | Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. | |
| October 18th, 2003 (October 18 2003) | Death | Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (born in 1912) | |
| October 18th, 2003 (October 18 2003) | Death | Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Spanish writer (born in 1939) | |
| October 18th, 2002 (October 18 2002) | Death | Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (born in 1932) | |
| October 18th, 2002 (October 18 2002) | Death | Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (born in 1950) | |
| October 18th, 2001 (October 18 2001) | Birth | Annelise Manojlovic, English actress | |
| October 18th, 2001 (October 18 2001) | Death | Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (born in 1922) | |
| October 18th, 2000 (October 18 2000) | Death | Julie London, American singer and actress (born in 1926) | |
| October 18th, 2000 (October 18 2000) | Death | Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (born in 1925) | |
| October 18th, 1998 (October 18 1998) | Birth | Julia Wroblewska, Polish actress | |
| October 18th, 1991 (October 18 1991) | Event | Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR. | |
| October 18th, 1991 (October 18 1991) | Birth | Tyler Posey, American actor | |
| October 18th, 1990 (October 18 1990) | Birth | Carly Schroeder, American actress | |
| October 18th, 1989 (October 18 1989) | Event | East German leader Erich Honecker resigns. | |
| October 18th, 1987 (October 18 1987) | Birth | Zac Efron, American actor | |
| October 18th, 1987 (October 18 1987) | Birth | Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model | |
| October 18th, 1984 (October 18 1984) | Birth | Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier | |
| October 18th, 1984 (October 18 1984) | Death | Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (born in 1957) | |
| October 18th, 1984 (October 18 1984) | Death | Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (born in 1899) | |
| October 18th, 1983 (October 18 1983) | Death | Willie Jones, baseball player (born in 1925) | |
| October 18th, 1983 (October 18 1983) | Death | Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish anarchist (born in 1897) | |
| October 18th, 1982 (October 18 1982) | Birth | Ne-Yo, an R&B singer | |
| October 18th, 1982 (October 18 1982) | Death | Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (born in 1885) | |
| October 18th, 1982 (October 18 1982) | Death | Dwain Esper, American film director (born in 1892) | |
| October 18th, 1982 (October 18 1982) | Death | Pierre Mendes-France, French politician (born in 1907) | |
| October 18th, 1982 (October 18 1982) | Death | John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (born in 1917) | |
| October 18th, 1978 (October 18 1978) | Birth | Wesley Jonathan, American actor | |
| October 18th, 1978 (October 18 1978) | Birth | Mike Tindall, English rugby union player | |
| October 18th, 1978 (October 18 1978) | Death | Ramon Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (born in 1914) | Leon Trotsky Quotes |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Event | 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 allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists. | |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Birth | Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer | |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Death | Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides | |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Death | Andreas Baader (born in 1943) | |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Death | Gudrun Ensslin (born in 1940) | |
| October 18th, 1977 (October 18 1977) | Death | Jan-Carl Raspe (born in 1944) | |
| October 18th, 1976 (October 18 1976) | Birth | Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer | |
| October 18th, 1976 (October 18 1976) | Death | Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (born in 1895) | |
| October 18th, 1975 (October 18 1975) | Birth | Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| October 18th, 1975 (October 18 1975) | Death | Al Lettieri, American actor (born in 1928) | |
| October 18th, 1974 (October 18 1974) | Birth | Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer | |
| October 18th, 1974 (October 18 1974) | Birth | Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) | |
| October 18th, 1974 (October 18 1974) | Birth | Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress | |
| October 18th, 1973 (October 18 1973) | Birth | Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer | |
| October 18th, 1973 (October 18 1973) | Death | Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (born in 1886) | Margaret Caroline Anderson Quotes |
| October 18th, 1973 (October 18 1973) | Death | Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (born in 1899) | Leo Strauss Quotes |
| October 18th, 1972 (October 18 1972) | Birth | Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver | |
| October 18th, 1970 (October 18 1970) | Birth | Jose Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism | |
| October 18th, 1970 (October 18 1970) | Birth | Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player | |
| October 18th, 1969 (October 18 1969) | Birth | Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer | |
| October 18th, 1968 (October 18 1968) | Event | The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games. | |
| October 18th, 1968 (October 18 1968) | Event | Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century. | |
| October 18th, 1967 (October 18 1967) | Event | The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. | |
| October 18th, 1966 (October 18 1966) | Death | Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (born in 1878) | |
| October 18th, 1966 (October 18 1966) | Death | Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (born in 1867) | |
| October 18th, 1965 (October 18 1965) | Birth | Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist | |
| October 18th, 1965 (October 18 1965) | Death | Henry Travers, British actor (born in 1874) | |
| October 18th, 1964 (October 18 1964) | Event | The 1964-1965 New York World s Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run. | |
| October 18th, 1964 (October 18 1964) | Birth | Dan Lilker, American musician, bassist for Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth | |
| October 18th, 1962 (October 18 1962) | Birth | Vincent Spano, American actor | |
| October 18th, 1961 (October 18 1961) | Birth | Wynton Marsalis, American musician | |
| October 18th, 1961 (October 18 1961) | Birth | Rick Moody, American author | |
| October 18th, 1961 (October 18 1961) | Death | Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (born in 1892) | |
| October 18th, 1960 (October 18 1960) | Birth | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor | |
| October 18th, 1960 (October 18 1960) | Birth | Erin Moran, American actress | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Birth | Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Birth | Milco Mancevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Birth | John Nord, former American pro wrestler | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Birth | Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Birth | Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor | |
| October 18th, 1959 (October 18 1959) | Death | Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (born in 1898) | |
| October 18th, 1958 (October 18 1958) | Birth | Corinne Bohrer, American actress | |
| October 18th, 1958 (October 18 1958) | Birth | Thomas Hearns, American boxer | |
| October 18th, 1958 (October 18 1958) | Birth | Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman | |
| October 18th, 1957 (October 18 1957) | Birth | Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician | |
| October 18th, 1957 (October 18 1957) | Birth | Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko) | |
| October 18th, 1956 (October 18 1956) | Birth | Martina Navratilova, Czech-born tennis player | |
| October 18th, 1956 (October 18 1956) | Birth | Craig Bartlett, American animator | |
| October 18th, 1956 (October 18 1956) | Birth | Jim Talent, American politician | |
| October 18th, 1955 (October 18 1955) | Birth | Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter | |
| October 18th, 1955 (October 18 1955) | Birth | David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter | |
| October 18th, 1955 (October 18 1955) | Birth | Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician | |
| October 18th, 1955 (October 18 1955) | Birth | Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band) & Supercluster (band)) | |
| October 18th, 1954 (October 18 1954) | Event | Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio. | |
| October 18th, 1954 (October 18 1954) | Birth | Liz Burch, Australian actress | |
| October 18th, 1952 (October 18 1952) | Birth | B?o Ninh, Vietnamese novelist | |
| October 18th, 1952 (October 18 1952) | Birth | Jerry Royster, American baseball player | |
| October 18th, 1951 (October 18 1951) | Birth | Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive | |
| October 18th, 1951 (October 18 1951) | Birth | Terry McMillan, American author | |
| October 18th, 1951 (October 18 1951) | Birth | Pam Dawber, American actress | |
| October 18th, 1950 (October 18 1950) | Birth | Om Puri, Indian actor | |
| October 18th, 1950 (October 18 1950) | Birth | Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (died in 2006) | |
| October 18th, 1950 (October 18 1950) | Birth | Sheila White, English actress | |
| October 18th, 1949 (October 18 1949) | Birth | Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel) | |
| October 18th, 1949 (October 18 1949) | Birth | George Hendrick, baseball player | |
| October 18th, 1949 (October 18 1949) | Birth | Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon) | |
| October 18th, 1948 (October 18 1948) | Birth | Ntozake Shange, American author | |
| October 18th, 1948 (October 18 1948) | Death | Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (born in 1881) | Walther von Brauchitsch Quotes |
| October 18th, 1947 (October 18 1947) | Birth | Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam | |
| October 18th, 1947 (October 18 1947) | Birth | Joe Morton, American actor | Joe Orton Quotes |
| October 18th, 1947 (October 18 1947) | Birth | Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (died in 1997) | Laura Nyro Quotes |
| October 18th, 1947 (October 18 1947) | Birth | Paul Chuckle, British comedian | Chuck D Quotes |
| October 18th, 1946 (October 18 1946) | Birth | James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter | |
| October 18th, 1946 (October 18 1946) | Birth | Howard Shore, Canadian film composer | |
| October 18th, 1945 (October 18 1945) | Event | The USSR s nuclear program receives plans for the USA s plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. | |
| October 18th, 1945 (October 18 1945) | Event | A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Perez Jimenez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d etat against then president Isaias Medina Angarita, who was overthrown by the end of the day. | |
| October 18th, 1945 (October 18 1945) | Birth | Chris Shays, Member of the United States Congress from Connecticut | |
| October 18th, 1945 (October 18 1945) | Birth | Huell Howser, American TV host | |
| October 18th, 1945 (October 18 1945) | Birth | Y?ldo, Turkish famous showman and football player | |
| October 18th, 1944 (October 18 1944) | Event | Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| October 18th, 1944 (October 18 1944) | Event | Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. | |
| October 18th, 1943 (October 18 1943) | Birth | Birthe Ronn Hornbech, Danish politician | |
| October 18th, 1942 (October 18 1942) | Birth | Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist | |
| October 18th, 1942 (October 18 1942) | Death | Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (born in 1862) | |
| October 18th, 1941 (October 18 1941) | Death | Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (born in 1860) | |
| October 18th, 1939 (October 18 1939) | Birth | Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator | |
| October 18th, 1939 (October 18 1939) | Birth | Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (died in 1963) | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| October 18th, 1939 (October 18 1939) | Birth | Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council | |
| October 18th, 1938 (October 18 1938) | Birth | Dawn Wells, American actress | |
| October 18th, 1937 (October 18 1937) | Birth | Cynthia Weil, American songwriter | |
| October 18th, 1935 (October 18 1935) | Birth | Peter Boyle, American actor (died in 2006) | |
| October 18th, 1934 (October 18 1934) | Birth | Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (died in 2007) | |
| October 18th, 1934 (October 18 1934) | Birth | Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (died in 1970) | |
| October 18th, 1934 (October 18 1934) | Birth | Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist | Chuck D Quotes |
| October 18th, 1933 (October 18 1933) | Birth | Forrest Gregg, American football player | |
| October 18th, 1932 (October 18 1932) | Birth | Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician | |
| October 18th, 1932 (October 18 1932) | Death | Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (born in 1873) | |
| October 18th, 1931 (October 18 1931) | Birth | Chris Albertson, American jazz historian | |
| October 18th, 1931 (October 18 1931) | Death | Thomas Edison, American inventor (born in 1847) | |
| October 18th, 1929 (October 18 1929) | Event | Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. | |
| October 18th, 1929 (October 18 1929) | Birth | Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua | |
| October 18th, 1928 (October 18 1928) | Birth | Keith Jackson, American football commentator | |
| October 18th, 1927 (October 18 1927) | Birth | George C. Scott, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| October 18th, 1926 (October 18 1926) | Birth | Chuck Berry, American musician | |
| October 18th, 1926 (October 18 1926) | Birth | Klaus Kinski, German actor (died in 1991) | Klaus Kinski Quotes |
| October 18th, 1925 (October 18 1925) | Event | The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee. | |
| October 18th, 1925 (October 18 1925) | Birth | Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania | |
| October 18th, 1924 (October 18 1924) | Birth | Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician | |
| October 18th, 1922 (October 18 1922) | Event | 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. | Ovid Quotes |
| October 18th, 1921 (October 18 1921) | Birth | Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina | |
| October 18th, 1921 (October 18 1921) | Death | King Ludwig III of Bavaria (born in 1845) | |
| October 18th, 1920 (October 18 1920) | Event | Birthdate of Mir Ali Dost Bugti. | |
| October 18th, 1920 (October 18 1920) | Birth | Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (died in 1994) | |
| October 18th, 1919 (October 18 1919) | Birth | Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (died in 1996) | |
| October 18th, 1919 (October 18 1919) | Birth | Anita O Day, American singer (died in 2006) | |
| October 18th, 1919 (October 18 1919) | Birth | Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (died in 2000) | Pierre Trudeau Quotes |
| October 18th, 1918 (October 18 1918) | Birth | Bobby Troup, American musician (died in 1999) | |
| October 18th, 1915 (October 18 1915) | Birth | Victor Sen Yung, American actor (died in 1980) | |
| October 18th, 1914 (October 18 1914) | Event | The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany | |
| October 18th, 1913 (October 18 1913) | Birth | Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (died in 2000) | |
| October 18th, 1912 (October 18 1912) | Event | The First Balkan War begins. | |
| October 18th, 1911 (October 18 1911) | Death | Alfred Binet, French psychologist (born in 1857) | |
| October 18th, 1909 (October 18 1909) | Birth | Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (died in 2004) | Philo Quotes |
| October 18th, 1908 (October 18 1908) | Event | Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. | |
| October 18th, 1906 (October 18 1906) | Birth | James Brooks, American painter (died in 1992) | |
| October 18th, 1905 (October 18 1905) | Birth | Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (died in 1993) | |
| October 18th, 1904 (October 18 1904) | Birth | A. J. Liebling, American journalist (died in 1963) | |
| October 18th, 1903 (October 18 1903) | Birth | Lina Radke, German athlete (died in 1983) | |
| October 18th, 1902 (October 18 1902) | Birth | Miriam Hopkins, American actress (died in 1972) | |
| October 18th, 1902 (October 18 1902) | Birth | Pascual Jordan, German physicist (died in 1980) | |
| October 18th, 1900 (October 18 1900) | Birth | Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (died in 1981) | |
| October 18th, 1898 (October 18 1898) | Event | United States takes possession of Puerto Rico. | |
| October 18th, 1897 (October 18 1897) | Birth | Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (died in 1980) | |
| October 18th, 1894 (October 18 1894) | Birth | H. L. Davis, American author (died in 1960) | |
| October 18th, 1893 (October 18 1893) | Birth | Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (died in 1966) | |
| October 18th, 1893 (October 18 1893) | Death | Charles Gounod, French composer (born in 1818) | |
| October 18th, 1889 (October 18 1889) | Death | Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (born in 1808) | |
| October 18th, 1886 (October 18 1886) | Death | Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (born in 1796) | |
| October 18th, 1882 (October 18 1882) | Birth | Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (died in 1917) | |
| October 18th, 1873 (October 18 1873) | Birth | Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (died in 1951) | Bono Quotes |
| October 18th, 1871 (October 18 1871) | Death | Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (born in 1791) | Charles Babbage Quotes |
| October 18th, 1870 (October 18 1870) | Birth | Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (died in 1966) | |
| October 18th, 1868 (October 18 1868) | Birth | Ernst Didring, Swedish author (died in 1931) | |
| October 18th, 1867 (October 18 1867) | Event | United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. | |
| October 18th, 1865 (October 18 1865) | Birth | Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (died in 1957) | |
| October 18th, 1865 (October 18 1865) | Birth | Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (died in 1946) | Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
| October 18th, 1865 (October 18 1865) | Death | Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1784) | |
| October 18th, 1860 (October 18 1860) | Event | The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. | |
| October 18th, 1859 (October 18 1859) | Birth | Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died in 1941) | Philo Quotes |
| October 18th, 1854 (October 18 1854) | Birth | Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (died in 1911) | |
| October 18th, 1851 (October 18 1851) | Event | Herman Melville s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. | Herman Melville Quotes |
| October 18th, 1817 (October 18 1817) | Death | Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French composer (born in 1763) | |
| October 18th, 1785 (October 18 1785) | Birth | Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (died in 1866) | |
| October 18th, 1777 (October 18 1777) | Birth | Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (died in 1811) | |
| October 18th, 1775 (October 18 1775) | Event | African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. | |
| October 18th, 1775 (October 18 1775) | Death | Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (born in 1715) | Philo Quotes |
| October 18th, 1770 (October 18 1770) | Death | John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (born in 1721) | |
| October 18th, 1767 (October 18 1767) | Event | Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. | |
| October 18th, 1748 (October 18 1748) | Event | Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession. | |
| October 18th, 1744 (October 18 1744) | Death | Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (born in 1660) | Anne of Great Britain Quotes |
| October 18th, 1741 (October 18 1741) | Birth | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (died in 1803) | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Quotes |
| October 18th, 1739 (October 18 1739) | Death | Antonio Jose da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (born in 1705) | |
| October 18th, 1706 (October 18 1706) | Birth | Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (died in 1785) | |
| October 18th, 1701 (October 18 1701) | Birth | Charles le Beau, French historian (died in 1778) | |
| October 18th, 1685 (October 18 1685) | Event | Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants. | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
| October 18th, 1679 (October 18 1679) | Birth | Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (died in 1716) | |
| October 18th, 1678 (October 18 1678) | Death | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (born in 1593) | |
| October 18th, 1668 (October 18 1668) | Birth | John George IV, Elector of Saxony (died in 1694) | |
| October 18th, 1667 (October 18 1667) | Death | Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia | |
| October 18th, 1662 (October 18 1662) | Birth | Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (died in 1714) | Matthew Henry Quotes |
| October 18th, 1653 (October 18 1653) | Birth | Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died in 1713) | Abraham Quotes |
| October 18th, 1648 (October 18 1648) | Event | Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization. | |
| October 18th, 1646 (October 18 1646) | Death | Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (born in 1607) | |
| October 18th, 1634 (October 18 1634) | Birth | Luca Giordano, Italian artist (died in 1705) | |
| October 18th, 1604 (October 18 1604) | Death | Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (born in 1528) | |
| October 18th, 1595 (October 18 1595) | Birth | Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (died in 1655) | |
| October 18th, 1570 (October 18 1570) | Death | Manoel da Nobrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (born in 1517) | |
| October 18th, 1569 (October 18 1569) | Birth | Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (died in 1625) | |
| October 18th, 1564 (October 18 1564) | Death | Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (born in 1520) | |
| October 18th, 1561 (October 18 1561) | Event | Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts. | |
| October 18th, 1558 (October 18 1558) | Death | Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (born in 1505) | |
| October 18th, 1547 (October 18 1547) | Birth | Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (died in 1606) | |
| October 18th, 1545 (October 18 1545) | Death | John Taverner, English composer | |
| October 18th, 1541 (October 18 1541) | Death | Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (born in 1489) | |
| October 18th, 1517 (October 18 1517) | Birth | Manoel da Nobrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (died in 1570) | |
| October 18th, 1503 (October 18 1503) | Death | Pope Pius III (born in 1439) | |
| October 18th, 1417 (October 18 1417) | Death | Pope Gregory XII | |
| October 18th, 1405 (October 18 1405) | Birth | Pope Pius II (died in 1464) | |
| October 18th, 1386 (October 18 1386) | Event | Opening of the University of Heidelberg | |
| October 18th, 1356 (October 18 1356) | Event | Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland. | |
| October 18th, 1210 (October 18 1210) | Event | Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV . | |
| October 18th, 1141 (October 18 1141) | Death | Margrave Leopold IV of Austria | |
| October 18th, 1127 (October 18 1127) | Birth | Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (died in 1192) | |
| October 18th, 1101 (October 18 1101) | Death | Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (born in 1053) | |
| October 18th, 1081 (October 18 1081) | Event | The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium. | |
| October 18th, 1035 (October 18 1035) | Death | Sancho III of Navarre | |
| October 18th, 1016 (October 18 1016) | Event | The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon. | |
| October 18th, 1009 (October 18 1009) | Event | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church s foundations down to bedrock. | Chris Rock Quotes |
