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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Day" title="Alaska Day">Alaska Day</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/320" title="320">320</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria" title="Pappus of Alexandria">Pappus of Alexandria</a></b>, one of the last great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mathematics" title="Greek mathematics">Greek mathematicians</a> of antiquity, observed an eclipse that allowed historians to calculate the approximate dates of his life.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1081" title="1081">1081</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Norman_wars" title="Byzantine–Norman wars">Byzantine–Norman wars</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Guiscard" title="Robert Guiscard">Robert Guiscard</a> led an invasion of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(1081)" title="Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)">capturing</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs" title="Durrës">Dyrrhachium</a> in present-day Albania.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1587" title="1587">1587</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipinos" title="Filipinos">Filipino</a> sailors disembarked from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon" title="Manila galleon">Manila galleon</a> <i>Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza</i> in what is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morro_Bay,_California" title="Morro Bay, California">Morro Bay, California</a>, the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_landing_of_Filipinos_in_the_United_States" title="First landing of Filipinos in the United States">first documented instance of Asians in the Americas</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775" title="1775">1775</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> activities in the early stages of the war, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Falmouth" title="Burning of Falmouth">destroyed</a></b> what is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland, Maine</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873" title="1873">1873</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renton_F.C." title="Renton F.C.">Renton</a> defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmarnock_F.C." title="Kilmarnock F.C.">Kilmarnock</a> 2–0 in the opening match of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873%E2%80%9374_Scottish_Cup" title="1873–74 Scottish Cup">inaugural Scottish Cup</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassare_Galuppi" title="Baldassare Galuppi">Baldassare Galuppi</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1706); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone" title="Lucy Stone">Lucy Stone</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1893); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freida_Pinto" title="Freida Pinto">Freida Pinto</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1984)</p>
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