Today in History: October 18, ‘Mr. October’ hits three homers to clinch World Series
At present is Saturday Oct the st day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On Oct Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in Tournament of the World Series to lead the New York Yankees to an - win and a - Series preeminence over the Los Angeles Dodgers his success in the Fall Classic earned him the nickname Mr October Also on this date In the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia Related Articles Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow deployment of National Guard in Chicago area How to watch the Orionid meteor shower debris of Halley s comet Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms A war on drugs or a war on terror Trump s military pressure on Venezuela blurs the lines California joins coalition of states suing Trump administration for canceled solar initiative funding In the American flag was first raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the U S In inventor Thomas Edison died at his home in West Orange New Jersey at the age of In Texas Instruments unveiled the Regency TR- the first commercially produced transistor radio In James D Watson Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA In American Bob Beamon shattered the previous long jump world record by nearly two feet leaping feet inches meters at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City In Congress passed the Clean Water Act overriding President Richard Nixon s veto In West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu Somalia freeing all hostages and four crew members and killing three of the four hijackers the Lufthansa flight had been hijacked five days earlier by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and made multiple stops before the rescue raid In two bombs exploded near a motorcade carrying former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi hours after her return from eight years in exile killing more than people Bhutto herself was unhurt but would be assassinated in December In President Donald Trump threatened to close the U S territory line with Mexico if administration could not stop a caravan of transients from Central America The present day s Birthdays Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka is Composer Howard Shore is Actor Joe Morton is Author Terry McMillan is Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova is Boxing Hall of Famer Thomas Hearns is Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is Musician Ne-Yo is Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn is Jazz singer-musician Esperanza Spalding is Actor Freida Pinto is Actor Zac Efron is WNBA center Brittney Griner is Actor Tyler Posey is Actor Barry Keoghan is
