Template:Selected anniversaries/October 18
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
Mars agrees to host reality TV show.
Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at Dennis Paulson of Mars, makes another daring escape.
Dennis Paulson of Mars, new reality TV show, gets rave reviews.
Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence Benoit Mandelbrot.
Green Ring interviewed by Dick Cavett (1969).
Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.
"I regret nothing" says Rosetta spacecraft, before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.