On this day in History - Oct. 18

Published: October 17, 2008, 8:30 pm

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0033 - Agripina dies. Cal gula's mother.0707 - Pope John VII dies. 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" 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. 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre dies. 1081 - The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium. 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois dies (b. 1053). Son of Henry I of France.1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa was born (d. 1192). Emperor of Japan. 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria dies. 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. 1382 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde dies (b. 1331). 1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg. 1405 - Pope Pius II was born (d. 1464). 1417 - Pope Gregory XII dies.1442 -

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