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. |
