Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 18
October 18, 2025 is the 291st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 18
- 1648 –Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- 1748 –Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1851 –Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1867 –United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
- 1929 –The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
- 1945 –Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 1964 –The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
- 1967 –The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 1968 –The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
- 2003 –Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
Who were born on October 18?
- 1873 –Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician (d. 1951)
- 1905 –Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
- 1909 –Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
- 1915 –Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1946 –James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
- 1949 –Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
- 1955 –Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
- 1955 –Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band), Supercluster)
- 1956 –Jim Talent, American politician
- 1985 –Derrick Tribbett, American musician (Twisted Method)
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