October 18: the opening of the University of Heidelberg, the first comics and the launch of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station

On October 18, 1386, Elector Ruprecht I in Germany, with the permission of Pope Urban VI, opened the University of Heidelberg. It became the fourth university of the Holy Roman Empire after the Bologna, Vienna and Prague universities and the first in the territory of modern Germany.

1748 - in Aachen, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands concluded a peace agreement that ended the eight-year War for the Austrian Succession. In December of the same year and January of the next, Austria, Sardinia and Spain joined it - all countries recognized the right to the Austrian and Hungarian throne of Maria Theresa of Hapsburg.

1896 - the first comics appeared in New York Journal. The tradition of picture stories dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when, in Valencia and Barcelona, ​​they began selling pictures for the people, most often on religious subjects.

1914 - for the first time a submarine was sunk in battle by another submarine. During the First World War, the British submarine E-3 sank after hitting a torpedo fired from a German U-27 submarine.

1955 - the Kakhovskaya HPP is launched - the sixth (lower and last) stage of the Dnieper hydropower plant cascade in Ukraine.

1967 - Walt Disney’s premiere of The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling’s books, took place in the United States. It was the last film that Walt Disney did in person.