Today in History: October 18

Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 18, the 292nd day of 2016. There are 74 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 18, 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
On this date:
In 1685, King Louis XIV signed the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes that had established legal toleration of France’s Protestant