At present is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2025. There are 74 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On Oct. 18, 1977, Reggie Jackson hit three house runs in Sport 6 of the World Collection to guide the New York Yankees to an 8-4 win and a 4-2 Collection victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers; his success within the Fall Basic earned him the nickname “Mr. October.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1867, the USA took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
In 1898, the American flag was first raised in Puerto Rico, shortly earlier than Spain formally relinquished management of the island to the U.S.
In 1931, inventor Thomas Edison died at his house in West Orange, New Jersey, on the age of 84.
In 1954, Texas Devices unveiled the Regency TR-1, the primary commercially produced transistor radio.
In 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Drugs and Physiology for figuring out the double-helix molecular construction of DNA.
In 1968, American Bob Beamon shattered the earlier lengthy soar world report by practically two ft, leaping 29 ft, 2 1/4 inches (8.90 meters) on the Summer time Olympics in Mexico Metropolis.
In 1972, Congress handed the Clear Water Act, overriding President Richard Nixon’s veto.
In 1977, West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the bottom in Mogadishu, Somalia, releasing all 87 hostages and 4 crew members and killing three of the 4 hijackers; the Lufthansa flight had been hijacked 5 days earlier by members of the Common Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine and made a number of stops earlier than the rescue raid.
In 2007, two bombs exploded close to a motorcade carrying former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi hours after her return from eight years in exile, killing greater than 130 individuals; Bhutto herself was unharmed however can be assassinated in December 2007.
In 2018, President Donald Trump threatened to shut the U.S. border with Mexico if authorities couldn’t cease a caravan of migrants from Central America.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Mike Ditka is 86.
- Composer Howard Shore is 79.
- Actor Joe Morton is 78.
- Writer Terry McMillan is 74.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Martina Navratilova is 69.
- Boxing Corridor of Famer Thomas Hearns is 67.
- Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is 65.
- Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is 64.
- Musician Ne-Yo is 46.
- Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn is 41.
- Jazz singer-musician Esperanza Spalding is 41.
- Actor Freida Pinto is 41.
- Actor Zac Efron is 38.
- WNBA middle Brittney Griner is 35.
- Actor Tyler Posey is 34.
- Actor Barry Keoghan is 33.
