October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 74 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600. 33 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation. 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher ...

Octombrie este a zecea lună a anului în calendarul Gregorian și una dintre cele șapte luni gregoriene cu o durată de 31 de zile. Octombrie începe cu soarele în semnul Balanței și sfârșește în semnul Scorpionului. Din punct ... 18; la 30 octombrie — Lună Nouă la 19:42. Temperaturi. Maxima absolută a fost de 39 de grade și s-a înregistrat la stația Armăsești în …

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had …

Events Pre-1600. 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.; 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.; 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos.Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne.; 932 – Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir is killed while fighting against the forces of …

Petre Țuțea (n. 6 octombrie 1902, Boteni, Muscel, România – d. 3 decembrie 1991, București, România) a fost un economist, eseist, filosof, jurist, politician și publicist român, militant naționalist, membru al Mișcării Legionare, antisemit, anticomunist, apoi comunist (Emil Cioran despre Țuțea: „Un marxist entuziast și mistic” ) și victimă a regimului comunist din România.

Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma.It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. The Torah and Talmud prescribe stoning as punishment for a number of offenses. Over the centuries, Rabbinic Judaism developed a number of …

Despite a significant reduction in the abortion to birth ratio since the mid-1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Union maintain the highest rate of abortions in the world. In 2001, 1.31 million children were born in Russia, while 2.11 million abortions were performed. In 2005, 1.6 million abortions were registered in Russia; 20% of these involved girls under the age of 18. Official …

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into …

Events Pre-1600. 312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.; 437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in …

Miley Ray Cyrus (pe numele adevărat Destiny Hope Cyrus, n. 23 noiembrie 1992, Nashville, Tennessee, Statele Unite ale Americii) este o cântăreață și actriță americană.. Miley Cyrus este una dintre cele mai cunoscute cântărețe din S.U.A și este cunoscută pentrul rolul ei din seria Hannah Montana.Aceasta a interpretat vocea lui Penny din filmul Bolt, și a înregistrat piesa „I …