Τι συνέβη στις 18 Οκτωβρίου;

1. Τι συνέβη στις 18 Οκτωβρίου;

• 2019 – Protests in Santiago that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean national police, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency.
• 1993 – Nihilism, the first professional runway show from the British designer Alexander McQueen, was staged in London.
• 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Bob Beamon (pictured) achieved a distance of 8.90 m (29.2 ft) in the long jump event, setting a world record that stood for 23 years.
• 1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of another planet (Venus).
• 1963 – The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.

2. Ποιος γεννήθηκε στις 18 Οκτωβρίου;

• 2000 – Sophie Thatcher, American actress
• 1998 – Janalynn Castelino, Italian-Indian singer-songwriter
• 1996 – Terance Mann, American basketball player
• 1994 – Enhō Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian race car driver

3. Ποιος πέθανε στις 18 Οκτωβρίου;

• 2025 – Sam Rivers, American bassist (born 1977)
• 2025 – Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese theoretical physicist (born 1922)
• 2025 – Lia Smith, American diver and transgender rights advocate.
• 2024 – Yehuda Bauer, Israeli historian of the Holocaust (born 1926)
• 2024 – Ginés González García, Argentine politician and physician (born 1945)

4. Τι γιορτάζεται στις 18 Οκτωβρίου;

• Alaska Day (Alaska, United States)
• Christian feast day: Asclepiades of Antioch
• Christian feast day: Isaac Jogues
• Christian feast day: Luke the Evangelist
• Christian feast day: Monon