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November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 43 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1095 - The Council of Clermont , called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land , begins.
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam 1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 - A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands .
1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres , the first book printed on a printing press in England .
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico .
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1686 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV 's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1803 - The Battle of Vertières , the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution , is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti , the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles Missouri - Canonized 3 July 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1865 - Mark Twain 's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County New York Saturday Press .
1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones , ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama , giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone .
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 .
1909 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya .
1916 - World War I : First Battle of the Somme ends - In France , British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1 , 1916.
1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia .
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize , saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite , but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie cartoon , directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks , featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse .
1929 - Grand Banks earthquake : Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean , a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake , centered on Grand Banks , breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.
1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations .
1940 - World War II : German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini 's disastrous invasion of Greece .
1942 - Holocaust : German SS carry out selection of Jewish ghetto in Lviv , western Ukraine , arresting 5.000 "unproductive Jews ". All get deported to Belzec death camp.
1943 - World War II : Battle of Berlin (air) , 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1943 - Holocaust : Aktion Emtefest: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv , western Ukraine , murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews . German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews ).
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1978 - Jonestown incident: In Guyana , Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
1982 - Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas , prompting reforms in the sport of boxing .
1987 - Iran-Contra scandal : The U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran -Contra affair.
1987 - King's Cross fire : In London , 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras .
1988 - War on Drugs : US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers .
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
1991 - After the 3-month siege , the Croatian city of Vukovar is invaded by Serbians
1993 - In South Africa , 21 political parties approve a new constitution .
1999 - In College Station, Texas , 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
2001 - Luigi's Mansion makes its launch for the Nintendo Gamecube introducing two new characters:E. Gadd and King Boo
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis : United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq .
2003 - In the UK the Local Government Act 2003 , repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28 , becomes effective.
2003 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal 's CPI(ML) .
2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol .
Births 1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont , Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568 )
1647 - Pierre Bayle , French philosopher (d. 1706 )
1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , German prince (d. 1806 )
1785 - David Wilkie , British artist (d. 1841 )
1786 - Carl Maria von Weber , German composer (d. 1826 )
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre , French inventor and photographer (d. 1851 )
1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora , Italian general and statesman (d. 1878 )
1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , Swedish explorer (d. 1901 )
1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert , British dramatist (d. 1911 )
1836 - Cesare Lombroso , Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909 )
1839 - August Kundt , German physicist (d. 1894 )
1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov , Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929 )
1870 - Dorothy Dix , pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951 )
1874 - Clarence Day , American author (d. 1935 )
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci , Italian soprano (d. 1963 )
1882 - Jacques Maritain , French philosopher (d. 1973 )
1883 - Carl Vinson , U.S. Congressman (d. 1981 )
1897 - Patrick Blackett , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )
1898 - Joris Ivens , Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989 )
1899 - Eugene Ormandy , Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985 )
1901 - George Gallup , American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984 )
1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux , Quebec painter (d. 1990 )
1906 - Klaus Mann , German writer (d. 1949 )
1906 - George Wald , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997 )
1906 - Alec Issigonis , Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (d. 1988 )
1907 - Compay Segundo , Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club ) (d. 2003 )
1908 - Imogene Coca , American actress and comedienne (d. 2001 )
1909 - Johnny Mercer , American lyricist (d. 1976 )
1915 - Ken Burkhart , Baseball player (d. 2004 )
1917 - Pedro Infante , Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957 )
1919 - Jocelyn Brando , American actress (d. 2005 )
1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan president (d. 1967 )
1923 - Alan Shepard , American astronaut (d. 1998 )
1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart , president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2000 )
1925 - Gene Mauch , baseball manager (d. 2005 )
1927 - Hank Ballard , American musician (d. 2003 )
1928 - Otar Gordeli , Georgian composer
1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos , Greek writer, Greece's ambassador to UNESCO
1935 - Rudolf Bahro , German dissident (d. 1997 )
1936 - Don Cherry , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995 )
1939 - Margaret Atwood , Canadian writer
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro , American actress
1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id , Sultan of Oman
1941 - David Hemmings , British actor (d. 2003 )
1942 - Linda Evans , American actress
1942 - Susan Sullivan , American actress
1944 - Wolfgang Joop , German artist, fashion designer and art collector
1946 - Alan Dean Foster , American author
1947 - Jameson Parker , American actor
1948 - Andrea Marcovicci , American singer and actress
1948 - Jack Tatum , American football player
1950 - Eric Pierpoint , American actor
1951 - Justin Raimondo , American author
1952 - Delroy Lindo , British actor
1953 - Alan Moore , British comic book writer and novelist
1954 - John Parr , British pop singer
1956 - Noel Brotherston , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995 )
1956 - Warren Moon , American football player
1957 - Seán Mac Falls , Irish-born poet
1959 - Jimmy Quinn , Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 - Kim Wilde , British singer
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins , American actress
1962 - Kirk Hammett , American guitarist (Metallica )
1962 - Jamie Moyer , baseball player
1963 - Dante Bichette , baseball player
1963 - Peter Schmeichel , Danish footballer
1963 - Len Bias , American basketball player (d. 1986 )
1966 - Jorge Camacho , Spanish poet
1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux , National Hockey League player
1968 - Barry Hunter , Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1968 - Gary Sheffield , baseball player
1968 - Owen Wilson , American actor
1969 - Sam Cassell , American basketball player
1970 - Peta Wilson , Australian actress
1973 - Nic Pothas , South African/English wicket-keeper
1974 - Chloë Sevigny , American actress
1975 - David Ortiz , Dominican Major League Baseball player
1975 - Jason Williams , American basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin , British actor and television presenter
1976 - Martin Bertram , American author
1976 - Shagrath , Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir )
1977 - Trent Barrett , Australian rugby league player
1977 - Fabolous , American rapper
1978 - Damien Johnson , Northern Irish footballer
1980 - Dustin Kensrue , American singer (Thrice )
1981 - Christina Vidal , American actress
1983 - Jon Johansen , Norwegian software developer
1984 - Johnny Christ , American musician (Avenged Sevenfold )
1984 - Ryohei Chiba , member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1984 - Nayanthara , Indian actress
Deaths 1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne , wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092 )
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239 )
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall , English churchman (b. 1474 )
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury , English statesman (b. 1528 )
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão , Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685 )
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans , French soldier and writer (b. 1725 )
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat , French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719 )
1814 - William Jessop , British civil engineer (b. 1745 )
1886 - Chester A. Arthur , 21st President of the United States (b. 1829 )
1889 - William Allingham , Irish author
1922 - Marcel Proust , French novelist (b. 1871 )
1941 - Walther Nernst , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864 )
1941 - Chris Watson , third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867 )
1941 - Émile Nelligan , Quebec poet (b. 1879 )
1952 - Paul Eluard , French poet (b. 1895 )
1962 - Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885 )
1965 - Henry A. Wallace , Vice President of the United States (b. 1888 )
1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan president (b. 1922 )
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. , American politician (b. 1888 )
1969 - Ted Heath , British musician and bandleader (b. 1902 )
1972 - Danny Whitten , American musician and songwriter (b. 1943 )
1976 - Man Ray , American artist (b. 1890 )
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg , Austrian politician (b. 1897 )
1978 - Jim Jones , American cult leader suicide (b. 1931 )
1978 - Leo Ryan , U.S. Congressman (b. 1925 )
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons , baseball player (b. 1901 )
1980 - Conn Smythe , NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895 )
1982 - Duk Koo Kim , Korean boxer (b. 1959 )
1984 - Mary Hamman , American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907 )
1986 - Gia Carangi , American model AIDS (b. 1960 )
1987 - Jacques Anquetil , French cyclist cancer (b. 1934 )
1991 - Gustáv Husák , President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913 )
1994 - Cab Calloway , American bandleader (b. 1907 )
1999 - Paul Bowles , American novelist (b. 1910 )
2002 - James Coburn , American actor (b. 1928 )
2003 - Michael Kamen , American composer (b. 1948 )
2004 - Cy Coleman , American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929 )
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