Editing October 18 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[First Balkan War]]: King [[Peter I of Serbia]] issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement]] is founded in Germany.
*[[1921]] &ndash; The [[Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
*[[1922]] &ndash; The [[British Broadcasting Company]] (later Corporation) <!-- Not 'Corporation' yet ! --> is founded by a [[consortium]], to establish a nationwide network of [[radio transmitter]]s to provide a national [[broadcasting]] service.
*[[1929]] &ndash; The [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]] overrules the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] in ''[[Edwards v Canada (AG)|Edwards v. Canada]]'' when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under [[Canadian law]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Soviet Union]] begins the liberation of [[Czechoslovakia]] from [[Nazi Germany]].
*  1944   &ndash; World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] takes place in Ulm, Germany.
*[[1945]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|USSR]]'s nuclear program receives plans for the United States [[Nuclear weapon|plutonium bomb]] from [[Klaus Fuchs]] at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].
*  1945   &ndash; A group of the [[Venezuela]]n Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]] and [[Carlos Delgado Chalbaud]], stages [[1945 Venezuelan coup d'état|a coup d'état]] against president [[Isaías Medina Angarita]], who is overthrown by the end of the day.
*  1945   &ndash; [[Argentina|Argentine]] military officer and politician [[Juan Perón]] marries actress [[Eva Perón|Eva Duarte]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; Texas Instruments announces the [[Regency TR-1]], the first mass-produced transistor radio.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Félicette]], a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
*[[1967]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] probe [[Venera 4]] reaches [[Venus]] and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[German Autumn]]: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]] and the [[Aircraft hijacking|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.
*[[1978]] &ndash; Based on the world's [[Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics#Children's Art Museum|first children's art museum]], the [[Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics]] opened in Yerevan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://nca.am/en/nca/history |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=nca.am}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-01 |title=Children's Art Gallery - The Caucasus Tours |url=https://www.thecaucasustours.com/childrens-art-gallery/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-22 |title=Venue[s] • EVN Report |url=https://evnmediafest.com/venue/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=evnmediafest.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; The [[Federal Communications Commission (FCC)]] begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
*[[1989]] &ndash; The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] launches on [[STS-34]] to deploy the Jupiter-bound [[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]] space probe.<ref name="Spacefacts STS-34">{{cite web |last=Becker |first=Joachim |title=Spaceflight mission report: STS-34 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-34.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126215342/http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-34.htm |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |access-date=February 26, 2014 |publisher=SPACEFACTS}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; The Supreme Council of [[Azerbaijan]] adopts a declaration of independence from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601|Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601]] crashes into [[Mount Papandayan]] near the town of [[Garut]] in [[West Java]], [[Indonesia]], killing 31.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident IPTN/CASA CN-235-10 PK-MNN Garut|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921018-0|access-date=2021-10-18|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Bolivian gas conflict]]: [[Bolivia]]n President [[Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada]] is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[2007 Karachi bombing|Karachi bombing]]: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Pakistani Prime Minister]] [[Benazir Bhutto]] kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[NASA Astronaut Corps|NASA Astronauts]] [[Jessica Meir]] and [[Christina Koch]] take part in the first all-female [[Extravehicular activity|spacewalk]] when they venture out of the [[International Space Station]] to replace a power controller.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Zraick|first=Karen|date=2019-10-18|title=NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html|access-date=2020-08-25|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*  2019   &ndash; [[2019–2020 Chilean protests|Riots in Chile's capital Santiago]] escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 [[Santiago Metro|Metro]] stations. President [[Sebastián Piñera]] later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.<ref name="Aljazeera191019051808789">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/chile-protests-state-emergency-declared-santiago-191019051808789.html|title=Chile protests: State of emergency declared in Santiago |website=aljazeera.com |access-date=21 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020062524/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/chile-protests-state-emergency-declared-santiago-191019051808789.html|archive-date=20 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BBC50113090">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50113090|title=Three dead in Chile supermarket fire amid riots|date=20 October 2019|access-date=21 October 2019|newspaper=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021030406/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50113090|archive-date=21 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>