Talk:October 18
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October 18: Alaska Day; Feast day of Saint Luke.
- 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
- 1016 - Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeated Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Ashingdon, gaining control over most of the Kingdom of England.
- 1851 - Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville (pictured), was first published as The Whale.
- 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom.
- 1954 - Texas Instruments introduced the first transistor radio.
Recent days: October 17 – October 16 – October 15
Shouldn't thi have a template of its own? that way, all that has to be done is edit the TDIH template by adding the date, and it automatially selects the proper template?HereToHelp|talk 02:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
