October 18, 2008 sounds good!

Mark it in your calendar, Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a date - October 18, 2008.

For those wondering what has happened on this date in history, well... alot! Check it out and pick a favorite. I think my favorite is 1929...

Events taking place in history on October 18th

• 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
• 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
• 1081 - The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
• 1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV .
• 1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
• 1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
• 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
• 1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
• 1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants.
• 1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
• 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
• 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
• 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• 1892 - The First long distance phone call in the United States between Chicago and New York.
• 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
• 1912 - The First Balkan War begins.
• 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
• 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
• 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
• 1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
• 1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• 1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
• 1977 - 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 executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
  
• 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.
• 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
• 2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto> returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.