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18 October

🇮🇳 In India

1861 Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, Marathi-language historian and writer from Maharashtra, was born.

1956 Tennis player Martina Navratilova—who dominated the sport in the late 20th century, winning 18 Grand Slam singles titles—was born in Prague.

1974 Amish Tripathi, Indian author known for his book series Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series, was born.

2004 The notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan was killed.

🌎 Elsewhere

1851 American author Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick was first published (as The Whale), in London.

1910 E. M. Forster publishes novel Howards End.

1922 The British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., was established, to be replaced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1927.

1931 Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84.

1967 The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time.

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan.

2019 NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.

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