Also on This Day: October 18

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Luke - Patron of Physicians and Surgeons

Hagfish Day - "we can find beauty in the ugly and protect all ocean animals"
National No Beard Day

An exhibition of Henri Matisse's works opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1961.  One work, "Le Bateau," was exhibited upside down for over a month.

Lotte Lenya was born in 1898.  Pierre Trudeau was born in 1919, and Paul Chuckle, children's entertainer, was born in 1947.