Saturday 18th October 2025

Historical Events

1925 – Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement
1932 – Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1960 – Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1963 – Explorer 18 spacecraft launched by NASA
1989 – 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1995 – Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass

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Famous Birthdays

1864 – Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero’s Poem)
1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1931 – Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
1941 – Jeff Torborg, baseball player
1951 – La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP

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Famous Deaths

1780 – James [Denham] Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1896 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1933 – Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
1993 – Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2010 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)

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