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October 18
1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, uniting Spain and making it a dominant world power.
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant Huguenots.
1767 - The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon Line, was agreed upon.
1867 - The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
1892 - The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York went into service.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the U.S.
1912 - The first Balkan War broke out.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded.
1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey at age 84.
1944 - Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
1962 - James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1969 - The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1972 - Congress passed the Clean Water Act, overriding President Richard Nixon's veto.
1977 - West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.
1982 - Former first lady Bess Truman died in Independence, Missouri at age 97.
2001 - Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2001 - CBS News announced that an employee in anchorman Dan Rather’s office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2007 - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile.
2009 - Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old Australian, steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. (She succeeded, returning to Sydney Harbor in May 2010.)
2010 - Four men snared in an FBI sting were convicted of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who’d convinced them he was a terror operative. (Defendants James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were each sentenced to 25 years in prison.)
2011 - Gilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier, is released after being held for more than five years by Hamas. He is exchanged for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Shalit had been held in Gaza since Palestinian militants kidnapped him in 2006.
2014 - The Supreme Court said Texas could use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election, rejecting an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo ID. (Three justices dissented.)
2019 - The world’s first all-female spacewalking team, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, replaced a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.
Birthdays
29 - Toby Regbo (actor)
29 - Tyler Posey (actor)
30 - Brittney Griner (basketball player)
30 - Bristol Palin (reality star)
31 - Joy Lauren (actress)
33 - Zac Effron (actor)
36 - Freida Pinto (actress/model)
36 - Lindsey Vonn (skier)
42 - Wesley Jonathan (actor)
46 - Joy Bryant (actress)
58 - Vincent Spano (actor)
60 - Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor)
63 - Jon Lindstrom (actor)
64 - Martina Navratilova (tennis player)
70 - Pam Dawber (actress)
73 - Joe Morton (actor)
81 - Mike Ditka (football coach)
82 - Dawn Wells (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 18
1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.
1924 - Red Grange (Illinois) scored four touchdowns in the first 12 minutes of a game against Michigan. He scored a fifth touchdown, intercepted a pass and threw a touchdown-pass in the second half.
1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.
1967 - The American League granted permission for the Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland; new franchises were then awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.
1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
1974 - Nate Thurmond of the Chicago Bulls becomes the first player in NBA history to complete a quadruple-double (22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks).
1977 - Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees hit three home runs to lead New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6 of the World Series.
1992 - Randall Cunningham of the Philadelphia Eagles sets an NFL record for career rushing yards by a quarterback with 3,683.
1995 - The NHL's Winnipeg Jets are sold to a group of Americans who announce their intentions to move the franchise to Phoenix.
2009 - Tom Brady of the New England Patriots sets an NFL record for TD passes in one quarter with five in the second quarter of a game against the Tennessee Titans.
1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, uniting Spain and making it a dominant world power.
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant Huguenots.
1767 - The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon Line, was agreed upon.
1867 - The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.
1892 - The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York went into service.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the U.S.
1912 - The first Balkan War broke out.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded.
1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey at age 84.
1944 - Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
1962 - James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1969 - The federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1972 - Congress passed the Clean Water Act, overriding President Richard Nixon's veto.
1977 - West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.
1982 - Former first lady Bess Truman died in Independence, Missouri at age 97.
2001 - Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2001 - CBS News announced that an employee in anchorman Dan Rather’s office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2007 - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile.
2009 - Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old Australian, steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. (She succeeded, returning to Sydney Harbor in May 2010.)
2010 - Four men snared in an FBI sting were convicted of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who’d convinced them he was a terror operative. (Defendants James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were each sentenced to 25 years in prison.)
2011 - Gilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier, is released after being held for more than five years by Hamas. He is exchanged for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Shalit had been held in Gaza since Palestinian militants kidnapped him in 2006.
2014 - The Supreme Court said Texas could use its controversial new voter identification law for the November election, rejecting an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo ID. (Three justices dissented.)
2019 - The world’s first all-female spacewalking team, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, replaced a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.
Birthdays
29 - Toby Regbo (actor)
29 - Tyler Posey (actor)
30 - Brittney Griner (basketball player)
30 - Bristol Palin (reality star)
31 - Joy Lauren (actress)
33 - Zac Effron (actor)
36 - Freida Pinto (actress/model)
36 - Lindsey Vonn (skier)
42 - Wesley Jonathan (actor)
46 - Joy Bryant (actress)
58 - Vincent Spano (actor)
60 - Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor)
63 - Jon Lindstrom (actor)
64 - Martina Navratilova (tennis player)
70 - Pam Dawber (actress)
73 - Joe Morton (actor)
81 - Mike Ditka (football coach)
82 - Dawn Wells (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 18
1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.
1924 - Red Grange (Illinois) scored four touchdowns in the first 12 minutes of a game against Michigan. He scored a fifth touchdown, intercepted a pass and threw a touchdown-pass in the second half.
1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.
1967 - The American League granted permission for the Athletics to move from Kansas City to Oakland; new franchises were then awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.
1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
1974 - Nate Thurmond of the Chicago Bulls becomes the first player in NBA history to complete a quadruple-double (22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks).
1977 - Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees hit three home runs to lead New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6 of the World Series.
1992 - Randall Cunningham of the Philadelphia Eagles sets an NFL record for career rushing yards by a quarterback with 3,683.
1995 - The NHL's Winnipeg Jets are sold to a group of Americans who announce their intentions to move the franchise to Phoenix.
2009 - Tom Brady of the New England Patriots sets an NFL record for TD passes in one quarter with five in the second quarter of a game against the Tennessee Titans.