UPI Almanac for Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007.

UPI almanac for Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2005 with 74 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Novelist, screenwriter and union activist Devery Freeman has died in Los Angeles at age 92.

The weekly UPI Almanac package for Oct. 17-23, 2005.

Today is Monday, Oct. 18, the 292nd day of 2004 with 74 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Disney has announced an Oct. 5 DVD launch of its cartoon "Aladdin," which has been off the market entirely for the past 10 years.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2003 with 74 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, June 16 (UPI) -- Hume Cronyn, one of the most distinguished stage, screen and TV actors of his time, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He was 91.