Historical Events on November 18

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• 326 Old St. Peter's Basilica consecrated in Rome (stood 4th - 16th century), later replaced by current Basilica
• 794 Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
• 1105 Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
• 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
• 1307 William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son's head
• 1421 Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
• 1424 Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
• 1477 First English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton
• 1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence

• 1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing earlier basilica, world's largest Christian basilica
• 1667 Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
• 1686 Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.

• 1738 France & Austria sign peace treaty
• 1742 Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant


• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
• 1755 Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths reported
• 1776 Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
• 1787 First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
• 1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
• 1804 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
• 1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
• 1820 Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
• 1833 Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven

• 1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London)
• 1852 Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
• 1861 The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia

• 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
• 1883 Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres
• 1883 Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
• 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
• 1893 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
• 1894 Richard Outcault's early comic strip "Origin of a New Species" published in World
• 1899 Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
• 1901 The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty
• 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt
• 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama


• 1904 General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.

• 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
• 1906 Langdon Mitchell's "New York Idea" premieres in NYC
• 1906 Anarchist's bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
• 1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
• 1911 Britain's first seaplane flies
• 1911 Opera "Lobetanz" first American performance
• 1912 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
• 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)

• 1917 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
• 1918 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
• 1919 H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene" premieres in NYC
• 1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
• 1922 Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
• 1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
• 1926 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

• 1929 Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places

• 1930 Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
• 1932 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon

• 1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
• 1938 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
• 1939 Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
• 1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus
• 1940 George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
• 1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
• 1941 Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss" premieres in NYC

• 1942 Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth" premieres in NYC
• 1943 First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
• 1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin
• 1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

• 1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days

• 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
• 1951 British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
• 1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
• 1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
• 1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
• 1956 Morocco gains independence
• 1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
• 1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
• 1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
• 1959 Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year

• 1960 Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
• 1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
• 1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
• 1961 "Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances

• 1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
• 1963 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
• 1963 Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
• 1963 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
• 1964 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP

• 1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
• 1966 Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
• 1966 US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
• 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1967 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40


• 1968 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon

• 1970 Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
• 1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
• 1971 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1971 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
• 1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
• 1973 Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
• 1975 Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
• 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
• 1975 "Rufus featuring Chaka Khan" 4th studio album by Rufus is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1976)
• 1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
• 1976 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
• 1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1979 29th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins

• 1982 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
• 1982 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
• 1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons
• 1984 "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 1984 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwelth Stadium, Edmonton: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17; Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game
• 1984 Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
• 1984 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
• 1984 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
• 1984 NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery "Fatal Vision", based on Joe McGinnis' novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children
• 1984 34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
• 1984 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
• 1985 Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
• 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
• 1985 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)

• 1987 31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
• 1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair

• 1989 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
• 1990 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 performances

• 1990 NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
• 1990 40th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins

• 1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
• 1991 Muslim Shi'ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
• 1991 Auburn men's basketball team placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and not eligible for post-season play 1991-92
• 1991 The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege
• 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM

• 1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
• 1993 Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
• 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
• 1993 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
• 1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
• 1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution

• 1995 Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (19), of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
• 1996 Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
• 1996 "Star Trek: First Contact" film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres
• 1997 Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
• 1997 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
• 1997 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe
• 1997 Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games
• 1997 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
• 1997 Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500

• 1997 "Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture" album is released by Sony Music Soundtrax
• 1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.
• 2001 Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as 'ConocoPhillips', the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US
• 2001 Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 victory over Frenchman Sébastien Grosjean in Sydney, Australia
• 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.

• 2003 The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).
• 2003 In England, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective
• 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional
• 2004 Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.

• 2007 59th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins

• 2011 Video game Minecraft is officially released by Mojang
• 2012 Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets

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