Today in History
18 October
254 births · 126 deaths · 50 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1918
Bobby Troup
American actor and musician (1918–1999)
Notable Births
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Sophie Thatcher
b. 2000
American actress (born 2000)
Janalynn Castelino
b. 1998
Indian-Italian singer and songwriter (born 1998)
Terance Mann
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Enhō Yūya
b. 1994
Japanese sumo wrestler
Min Ko Naing
b. 1962
Burmese activist (born 1962)
Ric Nordman
b. 1919
Canadian politician
Bobby Troup
b. 1918
American actor and musician (1918–1999)
Justus Lipsius
b. 1547
Flemish philologist, philosopher and humanist (1547–1606)
Notable Deaths
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Sam Rivers (bassist)
d. 2025
American bassist (1977–2025)
Yang Chen-Ning
d. 2025
Chinese-American physicist (1922–2025)
Suicide of Lia Smith
d. 2025
2025 suicide of transgender college student
Yehuda Bauer
d. 2024
Israeli Holocaust historian (1926–2024)
Ginés González García
d. 2024
Argentine politician and physician (1945–2024)
Colin Powell
d. 2021
American general, diplomat and statesman (1937–2021)
Lucky Dube
d. 2007
South African reggae musician (1964–2007)
Alfred Binet
d. 1911
French psychologist, IQ test developer (1857–1911)
On This Day in History
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2019
NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
NASA Astronaut Corps
2019
Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
Social Outburst (Chile)
2007
Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
2007 Karsaz bombing
2003
Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
Bolivian gas conflict
1992
Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601
1991
The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan
1989
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1979
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
Federal Communications Commission