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On This Day:
Saturday October 18, 2014

This is the 291st day of the year, with 74 days remaining in 2014.

Fact of the Day: mollusks

The mollusks have adapted to all habitats except air.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Luke, St. Gwen of Cornwall, and St. Justus of Beauvais.
Azerbaijan: Independence Day.
Canada: Persons Day.

Events

1469 - Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, making Spain a world power. They started the Spanish Inquisition in 1478.
1648 - The first American labor organization was founded by Boston's shoemakers, barrel makers, and tub makers.
1685 - The Edict of Nantes, granting religious freedom to the Huguenots, was revoked by King Louis XIV of France.
1767 - The Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, was agreed upon.
1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. It had cost $7.2 million.
1892 - The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago and New York became operational.
1898 - American troops raised the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico, formalizing U.S. authority over the island. In December, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War and approving the ceding of Puerto Rico to the United States.
1922 - British Broadcasting Company (later British Broadcasting Corporation) was officially formed.
1944 - Soviet Union troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
1967 - Russian spacecraft made the first soft landing on Venus.
1969 - The U.S. federal government banned cyclamates, the artificial sweeteners, because it was shown that the substance caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1972 - Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act.
1989 - Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years; he was succeeded by Egon Krenz.
1989 - Hungary was proclaimed a free republic.

Births

1904 - A.J. Liebling, American journalist and author.
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada 1968-1979 and then again from 1980-1984 (the period in between was a nine-month Progressive Conservative minority government.)
1926 - Chuck Berry, American singer.
1927 - George C. Scott, American actor.
1939 - Mike Ditka, an American former NFL player, coach, and television commentator best known for his 11-year stint as head coach of the Chicago Bears.
1956 - Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakian-born tennis player.

Deaths

1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, who acquired 1093 patents in his lifetime.
1973 - Walt Kelly, a cartoonist best remembered for his comic strip "Pogo."
1982 - Bess Truman, wife of Harry S Truman, and former first lady, died in Independence, MO. at age 97.

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