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This day in history: October 18

1. 1906

   The Robert Burns Memorial Statue, the first public statue erected in New Brunswick, was dedicated in Fredericton.

2. 1943

   Pere Areny, convicted of the murder of his brother, became the last person to be executed by Andorra.

3. 1963

   The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.

4. 1967

   The Soviet space probe Venera 4 became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of another planet (Venus).

5. 1968

   At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American athlete Bob Beamon achieved a distance of 8.90 m (29.2 ft) in the long jump event, setting a world record that stood for 23 years.

6. 1993

   Nihilism, the first professional runway show from the British designer Alexander McQueen, was staged in London.

7. 2019

   Protests in Santiago that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean national police, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency.

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