EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
October 18
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Day 290 of 2026 | Week 42 | 69 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
born in Philadelphia
pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
American jazz vocalist and saxophonist ("I Wonder Why")
Antigua cricketer (Leewards fast bowler)
American golfer (du Maurier Classic 1987)
American actor (Baby
English cricketer
American 9-time Grammy Award-winning jazz and classical trumpeter (Pulitzer Prize for "Blood on the Fields"; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra)
American actress (Happy Days
American boxer (Lineal and WBA Bantamweight Champion 1984-86)
Mexican race walker (Olympic gold 20k 1984; World C'ship gold 20k 1983)
American aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
El Salvadoran president (2009-2014) and journalist
Macedonian film director and screenwriter
American sailor (Olympic 8th 1988
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