Events that happened today in history, October 18th!

Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 18th, in history!

1648	The “shoemakers of Boston”–the first labor organization in what would become the United States–was authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1685	King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration the Protestant Huguenots.
1813	The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig.
1867	The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control.
1867	The rules for American football are formulated at meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities.
1883	The weather station at the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland, the highest mountain in Britain, is declared open. Weather stations were set up on the tops of mountains all over Europe and the Eastern United States in order to gather information for the new weather forecasts.
1892	The first long distance telephone line between Chicago and New York was opened.
1910	M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubbs.
1912	The First Balkan War breaks out between the members of the Balkan League–Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro–and the Ottoman Empire.
1918	Czechs seize Prague and renounce Hapsburg’s rule.
1919	Madrid opens a subway system.
1921	Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence.
1922	The British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp. of BBC) was founded.
1939	President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters.
1944	Lt. General Joseph Stilwell is recalled from China by president Franklin Roosevelt.
1950	The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there.
1967	A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus.
1968	The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a “black power” salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City.
1972	Congress passed the Clean Water Act, overriding President Richard M. Nixon’s veto.
1977	Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees hit three home runs to lead New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding Game 6 of the World Series.
1982	Former first lady Bess Truman died in Independence, Mo., at age 97.
2001	Four defendants were convicted in New York for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2007	Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

Events that happened today in history, October 18th!