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On This Day In History October 18

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Number Eighteen is considered a lucky number for Jewish and it denotes life in the Hebrew language. Here is the sweet truth October 18 is celebrated as National Chocolate Cupcake Day. Dive in to check out the list of famous birth & death anniversaries and musical events on This Day In History October 18.

What Happened On This Day October 18 In History?

• 1967 Walt Disney's animated musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book"  was released.

• John Lennon with his girlfriend, Yoko Ono was imprisoned in London for possession of marijuana in 1968.

•  Erich Honecker, the Communist leader of East Germany was abdicated after a series of health issues in 1989.

• Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan returned after 8 years of self-imposed exile and suicide bombers struck her motor cavalcade massacred hundreds of her supporters, fortunately, she escaped unharmed in 2007. 

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Birth Anniversaries On This Day In History October 18

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• Keith Jackson, Sports Commentator was born in 1928.

• Zac Efron, Actor, the heartthrob of Hollywood was born in 1987.

• Chuck Berry, a Guitarist, songwriter and singer was born in 1926.

• The assassin of John F. Kennedy, U.S. President, Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939. 

• Lindsey Von a gold medal skier was born in 1984.

Death Anniversaries On This Day In History October 18

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•  Maria, Queen of Hungary and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and wife of Louis II dies at 53 in 1558.

• Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and an inventor of a calculator, died of renal failure at 79 in 1871.

• Philipp Franz von Siebold, a German physician deceased in 1886.

• Alfred Binet, a French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test - Binet–Simon test died at 54 in 1911.

• Thomas Edison, an American inventor of lightbulbs, phonographs, motion picture cameras, died at 84 1931.

• Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal, died at 81 in 1941.

Historical Events on This Day In History October 18

• The United States officially took possession of the island of Puerto Rico when the American flag is hoisted over San Juan in 1898.

• The BBC became a publicly funded corporation and all assets were moved from British Broadcasting Company to  British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.  British Broadcasting Company was dissolved in 1926.

•  Italian planes used poison gas as a weapon against the Ethiopian fighters when Ethiopian warriors attempted to fight against the invading Italian army well equipped with artillery and aircraft in 1935.

• The Russian troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1944.        

• The Regency TR-1 Transistor radio was first sold in November for $49.95 in 1954.

Musical Events on This Day In History October 18

• The symphonic poem "Prometheus" by Franz Liszt was premiered in 1855.

• Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Too Many Girls" premiered in 1939 in New York.

• Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers recorded the track  "Let's Dance" in 1962.

•  Walt Disney's released the musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" in 1967.

• Beatlemania made its debut in London in 1979.