This Day In History

October 18th

1469  Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, beginning cooperative reign to unite all the dominions of Spain and accelerate them to dominant world power.
1860 British troops, in the last weeks of the second Opium War (a coalition to crush Chinese resistance to European colonization) burn Yuanmingyuan imperial summer palace built by the Manchu emperors.  The Chinese surrender soon after.
1867  Alaska formally handed over from Russia to the US and at Sitka the American flag is raised, all for just $7 million dollars.
1898  US takes control of Puerto Rico just 1 year after Puerto Rico won independence from Spanish rule.
1970 Quebec Minister of Labor found strangled to death 8 days after his kidnapping by the militant separist group Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).  Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sent in troops to have them release another kidnapped official and neutralized them by arresting over 500 separists.

1927  Actor George C. Scott
1939  Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka
1951  Actress Pam Dawber
1960  Actor Jean Claude Van Damme
1961  Actress Erin Moran

1957

• Chances Are/The Twelfth of Never - Johnny Mathis

• Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

• Be-Bop Baby/Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - Ricky Nelson

• Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers

1965

• Yesterday - The Beatles

• Treat Her Right - Roy Head

• You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes

• Behind the Tear - Sonny James

1973

• Half-Breed - Cher

• Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band

• Angie - The Rolling Stones

• Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez

1981

• Arthur's Theme (Best that You Can Do) - Christopher Cross

• For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

• Private Eyes - Daryl Hall and John Oates

• Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt

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