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It happened on a… October 18
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2019

1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station.

2009

QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter.

1995

NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix.

1988

“Roseanne” TV comedy starring Roseanne Barr, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf premieres in the US on ABC.

1970

Police open the trunk of a suspicious car parked beside a hangar at St-Hubert Airport; discover a body, positively identified as that of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, kidnapped by FLQ terrorists Oct. 10.

1968

Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a “black power” salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.

1966

The Jimi Hendrix Experience played their first gig as a band.

1961

“West Side Story”, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, starring Natalie Wood, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1962).

1957

Montreal Herald stops publication after 146 years; Montreal’s oldest daily newspaper.

1954

Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

1931

American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion

1922

British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation.

1918

NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn.

1867

Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million.

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