Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 18

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  Herman Melville
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  Scene from Moby-Dick
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  Replica of Template:Nowrap
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  Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg
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  Robert Burns Memorial Statue
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  Regency TR-1 radio
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  Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima
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  Robert Guiscard
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  The Scottish Cup trophy
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  Bob Beamon

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Day of Restoration of Independence in Azerbaijan (1991),	Unclear when this is celebrated
1009 – Under orders from the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed.	lots of CN tags
1016 – Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeated Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun, gaining control over most of the Kingdom of England.	refimprove
1386 – A special Pontifical High Mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit commemorated the opening of Heidelberg University, the oldest university in Germany.	refimprove section
1540 – An expedition led by Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto destroyed the fortified village of Mabila in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama, killing Chief Tuskaloosa in the process.	unreferenced section
1561 – Sengoku period: The Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima (depicted), one of the most famous in Japanese history, was fought in present-day Nagano Prefecture.	Article doesn't specify when fourth battle took place.
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale in London.	plot summary too long
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company was incorporated by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom.	needs footnotes, original research
1929 – In the Persons Case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decided that women were eligible to sit in the Senate of Canada.	Too much uncited
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married popular actress Eva Duarte, better known as Evita.	unreferenced sections
1954 – The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.	Too much unreferenced
1977 – Various Red Army Faction members died in prison, officially by suicide, ending the German Autumn crisis.	needs more footnotes
2004 – SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shwe announced that Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was "permitted to retire on health grounds", but then had him arrested.	refimprove section
2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto in Karachi caused at least 130 deaths and 450 injuries.	refimprove section
Feast day of Saint Luke (Christianity);	referncing issues
Félix Houphouët-Boigny |b|1905|	Orange "section doesn't cite sources" banner
Lindsey Vonn |b|1984|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity, observed an eclipse that allowed historians to calculate the approximate dates of his life.
• 1081 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Robert Guiscard led an invasion of the Byzantine Empire, capturing Dyrrhachium in present-day Albania.
• 1565 – The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two Portuguese trade vessels at the Battle of Fukuda Bay in Nagasaki.

• 1587 – Filipino sailors disembarked from the Manila galleon Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza in what is now Morro Bay, California, the first documented instance of Asians in the Americas.
• 1748 – The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
• 1873 – Renton defeated Kilmarnock Template:Nowrap in the opening match of the inaugural Scottish Cup.
• 1906 – The Robert Burns Memorial Statue, the first public statue erected in New Brunswick, was dedicated in Fredericton.
• 1967 – The Soviet space probe [[Venera 4|Template:Nowrap]] became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of another planet (Venus).
• 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Bob Beamon (pictured) achieved a distance of 8.90 m (29.2 ft) in the long jump event, setting a world record that stood for 23 years.
• 1993 – Nihilism, the first professional runway show from the British designer Alexander McQueen, was staged in London.
• Born/died this day: | John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter |d|1361| Lady Mary Wroth |b|1587| Jacob Jordaens |d|1678| Baldassare Galuppi |b|1706| Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough |d|1744| Mehmet Esat Bülkat |b|1862|Lucy Stone |d|1893| Jesse Helms |b|1921|Maria Antonescu |d|1964|Bess Truman |d|1982| Freida Pinto |b|1984| Zohran Mamdani |b|1991|

Notes

• 1968 Olympics Black Power salute appears on October 16, so Bob Beamon should not appear in the same year.

October 18: Alaska Day (1867) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1356 – The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.
• 1887 – Johannes Brahms (pictured) conducted the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann.
• 1963 – The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.
• 2019 – Protests in Santiago that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean national police, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency.