Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 18
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.
- 1851 - Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, 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.
- 1977 - Various Red Army Faction members committed suicide in prison, ending the German Autumn crisis.
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