Historical Events on October 18

1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants

1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery

1790 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is granted permission to enroll at the Tübinger Stift at an earlier age than usually permitted

1855 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Prometheus" premieres

1910 E. M. Forster publishes novel "Howards End"

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)

1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenin's political testament

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

1944 Allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery confer in Brussels, Belgium

1946 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres

1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years, longest serving manager in MLB history

1955 Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete

1961 "West Side Story", directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1962)

1962 JFK meets Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko

1962 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"

1962 James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA

1966 "Persona", Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, is released

1968 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, they are fined £150 for marijuana possession

1969 Rod Stewart joins Small Faces

1974 Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks

1975 Simon & Garfunkel reunite on "Saturday Night Live", sing "My Little Town"

1977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record

1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

1988 "Roseanne" TV comedy starring Roseanne Barr, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf premieres in the US on ABC

1991 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves is released

2000 Zack de la Rocha announces he is leaving rock band Rage Against the Machine

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2009 QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter

2012 Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are honoured for their work with fashion label The Row at the WSJ Magazine's Innovator Of The Year Awards in New York City

2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway"

2017 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”