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Historical Events - October 18
2003: Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
1993: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
1974: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.
1969: Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possession of marijuana on Hawaii.
1968: A police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's flat finds 168 grains of marijuana.
1954: Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1944: Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
1925: The Grand Ole Opry opens.
1922: The British Broadcasting Company (BBC)is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1912:
The First Balkan War begins.
1908:
Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
1898:
United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1867:
United States takes possession of Alaska, celebrated annually in the state as (Alaska Day).
1860:
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1851:
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1767:
Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed
1748:
Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1685:
Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants
1561:
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
1016:
The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1009:
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
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