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What happend on 18th October
17.10
19.10
1968
Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90m in the long jump at the Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
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.
1968
A police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's flat finds 168 grains of marijuana. They later plead guilty and are fined £150.
1964
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
1954
Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
1945
The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1945
A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president IsaÃas Medina Angarita, who was definitely overthrown by the end of the day.
1944
Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
1944
Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
1925
The Grand Ole Opry opens.
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