Born on 18 October 1972

At A Glance

18 October 1972 at a glance

Day of the week

18 October 1972 was a Wednesday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“Popcorn” by Hot Butter was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1972

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1972 was The Godfather.

Star sign

The star sign for 18 October is Libra.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 18 October 1972 fell in the Year of the Rat.

Birthstone

The birthstone for October is Opal.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 18 October 1972 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 18 October

• 1963 Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
• 1967 The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• 1978 Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
• 1979 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• 1989 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.

Famous people born on 18 October

• Zohran Mamdani, American politician, mayor of New York City (born 1991)
• Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker (born 1984)
• Zac Efron, American actor and singer (born 1987)
• Barry Keoghan, Irish actor (born 1992)

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