All Events

Historical Events on October 18

  • American Revolutionary War

    1775

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

  • Puerto Rico

    1898

    The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

  • Soviet Union

    1944

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

  • Erwin Rommel

    1944

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

  • Soviet Union

    1945

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

  • Venezuela

    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.

  • Argentina

    1945

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

  • Soviet Union

    1967

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

  • Azerbaijan

    1991

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

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