October 18 in History

Historical Events on October 18

1775 American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).

1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

1944 World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.

1944 World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.

1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1945 A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.

1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.

1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.

1991 The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

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Famous Birthdays on October 18

1919 Pierre Trudeau

1921 Jesse Helms

1939 Lee Harvey Oswald

1965 Zakir Naik

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Famous Deaths on October 18

1865 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

1871 Charles Babbage

1893 Charles Gounod

1931 Thomas Edison

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