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Events from History on November 18

1105 : Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1210 : Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1307 : William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 : Holland/Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed
1421 : Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 : Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1477 : 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
1494 : French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
1497 : Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
1626 : St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated
1667 : Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1718 : Voltaires "Oedip‚," premieres in Paris
1738 : France & Austria sign peace
1742 : Prussia & England sign anti-French military covenant
1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
1755 : Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 : Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 : 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1793 : Louvre officially opens in Paris
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
1805 : Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1805 : Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
1820 : Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1833 : Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1835 : -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
1852 : State funeral of duke of Wellington (London)
1865 : Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1874 : National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 : Antonin Dvor k'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 : 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault
1894 : 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1897 : W Villiger discovers asteroid #428 Monachia
1899 : Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
xxxx : Klu Klux Klan member convicted of 1963 church bombing in Birmingham
1902 : Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1903 : Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1905 : George Bernard Shaws "Major Barbara," premieres in London
1905 : Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1906 : Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea," premieres in NYC
1909 : US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1911 : Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1911 : Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912 : Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 : Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1916 : Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1918 : Brussels free Stofnar
1918 : Latvia declares independence from Russia
1919 : H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC
1920 : Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 : A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #989 Schwassmannia
1922 : Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdl Medjid kalief
1926 : Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1928 : Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929 : Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929 : Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929 : Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 : Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 : Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
1932 : "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 : 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1935 : L Boyer discovers asteroid #1364 Safara
1936 : Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 : Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 : L Oterma discovers asteroid #1522 Kokkola
1939 : Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940 : George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb
1941 : British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941 : Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in NYC
1941 : Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 : Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 : 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 : 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 : U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1945 : Arnold Sch”nberg's Prelude for orch & mixed choir, premieres
1949 : NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
1950 : South Korea Pres Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 : "See it Now" premieres on TV
1951 : British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
1951 : Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors
1951 : is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 : Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1954 : Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1954 : Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to
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 : JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1961 : US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 : Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 : England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens
1963 : King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco)
1964 : Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
1964 : J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1965 : Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1966 : Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow
1966 : US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 : British govt devalues œ from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1968 : Milt coup in Mali, pres Keita ousted
1970 : Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 : Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1970 : Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 : Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1973 : Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 : Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1976 : Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2507 Bobone & #5081
1976 : Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1976 : Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1978 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6433 Enya
1978 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 : Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 : "Heaven's Gate" premieres
1980 : Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1980 : Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
1981 : Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1981 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3136
1981 : T Furuta discovers asteroid #2908 Shimoyama
1982 : Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1984 : "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
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
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)
1985 : Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
1985 : Washington, DC, & turned over to Smithsonian Institution
1987 : 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1987 : Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987 : J M Baur discovers asteroid #3896 Pordenone & #4630 Chaonis
1987 : T Seki discovers asteroid #4097 Tsurugisan
1989 : Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states
1989 : the right to do so
1990 : "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
1990 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #5649 Donnashirley & #6318 Cronkite
1990 : Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 : France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 : Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1991 : recruiting violations & is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92
1992 : "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1992 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6658
1992 : N Kawasato discovers asteroid #5882
1992 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #7591, #7951, #8095 & #8185
1993 : 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 : Black & white leaders in S Africa approve new democratic constitution
1993 : NAFTA passes House
1993 : North-Siberia record cold for November (-55øC)
1993 : Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 : T Urata discovers asteroid #7955
1993 : WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
1994 : "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres
1995 : Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
1995 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #6840
1995 : Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
1995 : T Kobayashi discovers asteroid #6839
1995 : Y Shimizu & T Urata discover asteroid #7609, #7676 & #7792
1996 : Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
1997 : Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 : FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 : Gary Glitter arrested by British police in child porn probe
1997 : Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 : Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500

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