On October 18:
1386 The University of Heidelberg opened.
1851 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published as The Whale.
1867 The United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
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1897 Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist, was born.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) was founded.
1924 Amateur radio operator Frank Bell made the first trans-global radio transmission to London when he sent a Morse code transmission. It was received and replied to by London-based amateur operator Cecil Goyder.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry opened in Nashville, Tennessee.
1926 US singer Chuck Berry was born.
1927 US actor George C. Scott was born.
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1929 Women were recognised as “Persons” under Canadian law.
1934 Sweedish actress Inger Stevens was born.
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1954 NZ Opera had its first opening night, performing The Telephone, in Wellington.
1991 Azerbaijan declaresd its independence from the USSR.
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Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia.
