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18 Nov 1626
St. Peters Basilica is consecrated replacing earlier basilica worlds largest Christian basilica
18 Nov 1667
Treaty of Bongaja King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
18 Nov 1686
Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of Frances anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.
18 Nov 1742
Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant
18 Nov 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
18 Nov 1755
Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston no deaths reported
18 Nov 1787
First Unitarian minister in US ordained Boston
18 Nov 1803
Battle of Vertieres in which Haitians defeat French
18 Nov 1804
Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
18 Nov 1805
30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lees home in Wiscasset Maine organizes Female Charitable Society first womans club in America
18 Nov 1820
Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
18 Nov 1852
State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Pauls Cathedral London)
18 Nov 1852
Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
18 Nov 1861
The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond Virginia
18 Nov 1874
National Womans Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
18 Nov 1883
Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
18 Nov 1893
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
18 Nov 1894
Richard Outcaults early comic strip Origin of a New Species published in World
18 Nov 1899
Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
18 Nov 1901
The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty
18 Nov 1902
Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt
18 Nov 1903
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
18 Nov 1904
General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
18 Nov 1905
Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
18 Nov 1906
Langdon Mitchells New York Idea premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1909
US invades Nicaragua later overthrows President Zelaya
18 Nov 1912
Cholera breaks out in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire
18 Nov 1913
Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
18 Nov 1917
Sigma Alpha Rho a Jewish high school fraternity is founded in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
18 Nov 1918
Belgian troops re-enter Brussels lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
18 Nov 1919
H Tierney & J McCarthys musical Irene premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1920
Apollo Theater (Academy Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
18 Nov 1922
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
18 Nov 1926
Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
18 Nov 1929
Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
18 Nov 1930
Ska Kyiku Gakkai a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
18 Nov 1210
Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
18 Nov 1307
William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his sons head
18 Nov 1421
Southern sea floods 72 villages killing estimated 10000 in Netherlands
18 Nov 1477
First English dated printed book Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers by William Caxton
18 Nov 1932
Flowers & Trees receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
18 Nov 1938
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
18 Nov 1939
Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simn Bolvar hits German mine 86 die
18 Nov 1939
The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus
18 Nov 1940
George Matesky New York Citys Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
18 Nov 1941
British troops open attack on Tobruk North Africa
18 Nov 1941
Jerome ChodorovJoseph Fields Junior Miss premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1942
Thornton Wilders Skin of our Teeth premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1943
First US ambassador to Canada Ray Atherton nominated
18 Nov 1949
The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days
18 Nov 1951
Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
18 Nov 1953
Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
18 Nov 1954
Yanks trade Woodling Byrd McDonald Triandos Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
18 Nov 1955
Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
18 Nov 1958
Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
18 Nov 1959
Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
18 Nov 1960
Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
18 Nov 1960
Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
18 Nov 1961
Gay Life opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
18 Nov 1961
Kwamina closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
18 Nov 1963
Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
18 Nov 1963
Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
18 Nov 1963
King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
18 Nov 1966
Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
18 Nov 1966
US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
18 Nov 1967
British government devalues pound from US equivalent of 2.80 to 2.40
18 Nov 1968
Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
18 Nov 1970
Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
18 Nov 1971
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
18 Nov 1973
Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
18 Nov 1973
Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
18 Nov 1975
Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
18 Nov 1975
Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
18 Nov 1975
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan 4th studio album by Rufus is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1976)
18 Nov 1976
Spains parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
18 Nov 1982
Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic crowned 32nd Miss World
18 Nov 1982
Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas Nevada prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
18 Nov 1983
Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons
18 Nov 1984
3 Musketeers closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
18 Nov 1984
72nd CFL Grey Cup Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17
18 Nov 1984
Flyers Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
18 Nov 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
18 Nov 1984
The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
18 Nov 1985
Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
18 Nov 1985
Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
18 Nov 1985
Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
18 Nov 1987
31 people die in a fire at Kings Cross Londons busiest tube station
18 Nov 1987
Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
18 Nov 1989
Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
18 Nov 1990
Fiddler on the Roof opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 performances
18 Nov 1990
NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0 to run record to 10-0
18 Nov 1990
Yugoslavian tennis star Monica Seles beats Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina 64 57 36 64 62 to win her first of 3 straight WTA Tour Championships in NYC first 5-set womens final since 1901
18 Nov 1990
Andre Agassi claims his first and only season-ending ATP Tour World Championship tennis title with a 57 76 75 62 win over defending champion Stefan Edberg in Frankfurt Germany
18 Nov 1991
France deports Marlons daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
18 Nov 1991
Muslim Shiites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
18 Nov 1991
Auburn mens basketball team placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and not eligible for post-season play -92
18 Nov 1991
The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav Peoples Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege
18 Nov 1992
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
18 Nov 1993
Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
18 Nov 1993
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
18 Nov 1993
North-Siberia record cold for November (-55C)
18 Nov 1993
Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
18 Nov 1993
WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
18 Nov 1995
Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (19) of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss World
18 Nov 1995
Sams Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
18 Nov 1996
Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny later shes charged with murder
18 Nov 1996
Star Trek First Contact film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres
18 Nov 1997
Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
18 Nov 1997
FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
18 Nov 1997
70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe
18 Nov 1997
Mavericks A C Green ties Randy Smiths NBA record of 906 cons games
18 Nov 1997
Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record 902000
18 Nov 1997
Willem de Kooning painting Two Standing Women sold for 4182500
18 Nov 1997
Titanic Music from the Motion Picture album is released by Sony Music Soundtrax
18 Nov 1999
In College Station Texas 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.
18 Nov 2001
Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as ConocoPhillips the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US
18 Nov 2001
Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 63 63 64 victory over Frenchman Sbastien Grosjean in Sydney Australia
18 Nov 2002
Iraq disarmament crisis United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
18 Nov 2003
The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyals CPI(ML).
18 Nov 2003
In England the Local Government Act repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28 becomes effective
18 Nov 2003
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the states ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional
18 Nov 2004
Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
18 Nov 2007
Roger Federer scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles beating Spaniard David Ferrer 62 63 62 in the final in Shanghai China
18 Nov 2011
Video game Minecraft is officially released by Mojang
18 Nov 2012
Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
18 Nov 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.
18 Nov 1964
Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson wins American League MVP
18 Nov 1969
Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi assigned to the Tate and LaBianca murders will eventually convict Charles Mason for orchestrating the killings
18 Nov 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
18 Nov 1984
CFL Grey Cup Commonwelth Stadium Edmonton Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game
18 Nov 1993
Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
18 Nov 1913
Lincoln Deachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego
18 Nov 1984
CFL Grey Cup Commonwealth Stadium Edmonton Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game
18 Nov 1302
Pope Boniface VIII issues papal bull (decree) Unam sanctam emphasizing the higher position of the spiritual in comparison with the secular order
18 Nov 1742
Prussia and Great Britain sign an anti-French military covenant
18 Nov 1803
Battle of Vertieres Haitian population inflict final defeat on French force attempting to quell slave rebellion on colony of Saint-Dominque
18 Nov 1820
Antarctica sighted by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer
18 Nov 1883
Antonn Dvoks Husitska premieres
18 Nov 1883
Antonn Dvoks Husitska (Hussite Overture) premieres at the gala opening of the Prague National Theater
18 Nov 1883
Four standard time zones for the Continental US introduced - Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific replacing over 100 previous time zones
18 Nov 1911
Ludwig Thuilles opera Lobetanz first American performance
18 Nov 1978
Leo J Ryan American politician and 4 others killed in Jonestown Guyana by members of Peoples Temple followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members of the religious cult
18 Nov 1210
Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
18 Nov 1883
US and Canadian railroads set and synchronize four standard time zones - Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific replacing over 100 previous time zones
18 Nov 1919
H. Tierney & J. McCarthys musical Irene premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1997
Mavericks A. C. Green ties Randy Smiths NBA record of 906 cons games
18 Nov 1997
Warner Bros. releases Songs from The Capeman ninth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon it contains Simons own performances of songs from his Broadway musical flop
18 Nov 2007
35th American Music Awards Fergie Justin Timberlake & Carrie Underwood win
18 Nov 1421
Southern sea floods 72 villages killing estimated 10000 in the Netherlands
18 Nov 1646
Seventh Council of Toledo of bishops convened by Visigothic King of Hispania Chindasuinth extends treason laws to the clergy
18 Nov 1686
Charles Franois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of Frances anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants.
18 Nov 1874
National Womans Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland Ohio
18 Nov 1902
Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt [1]
18 Nov 1913
Lincoln Beachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego
18 Nov 1922
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdlmecid II as caliph - the last Ottoman caliph
18 Nov 1929
Foundation stone for Umaid Bhawan Palace laid in Jodhpur India. Originally built to provide employment for drought-stricken farmers now one of worlds largest private residences
18 Nov 1943
WWII German submarine U-211 sunk east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by British aircraft
18 Nov 1976
MLB New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Don Gullett
18 Nov 1983
MGMUA releases nostalgic holiday film A Christmas Story starring Peter Billingsley and Darren McGavin based on anecdotes from humorist Jean Shepherd
18 Nov 1993
Black and white leaders in South Africa approve a new democratic constitution
18 Nov 2013
20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo Egypt
18 Nov 2014
Jamaica win the Caribbean Cup in football
18 Nov 2015
2 female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano Nigeria killing 15 and injuring over 100
18 Nov 1307
William Tell reputedly shoots an apple off his sons head
18 Nov 1804
Pulver Purim is first celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape of Rabbi Abraham Danzig from a gunpowder explosion in Vilna
18 Nov 1902
Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom names his stuffed teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt [1]
18 Nov 1911
First American performance of Ludwig Thuilles opera Lobetanz Metropolitan Opera in New York City
18 Nov 1930
Musical Smiles with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
18 Nov 1932
The Disney cartoon Flowers & Trees is the first cartoon to receive an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
18 Nov 1936
Main spans of the Golden Gate Bridge are joined
18 Nov 1945
Arnold Schoenbergs Prelude for orchestra and mixed choir premieres
18 Nov 1951
Former Cubs first baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
18 Nov 1955
The Bell X-2 rocket plane has its first powered flight reaching Mach 0.992 at Edwards Air Force Base
18 Nov 1960
The Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration
18 Nov 1963
The Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
18 Nov 1966
BrooklynLos Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to an arthritic left elbow
18 Nov 1966
US Roman Catholic bishops end the rule of abstaining from meat on Fridays
18 Nov 1970
Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations
18 Nov 1978
First flight of McDonnell Douglas FA-18 Hornet fighter jet
18 Nov 1985
Howard Stern Radio Show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM) with an afternoon drive slot
18 Nov 1985
Paul McCartney releases film theme single Spies Like Us
18 Nov 1992
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas Nevada on KXTE 107.5 FM
18 Nov 1996
Eappen family hire Louise Woodward as their nanny later charged with murder and convicted of involuntary manslaughter
18 Nov 1997
A rare black pearl necklace is auctioned for a record 902000
18 Nov 2012
Lewis Hamilton wins the US Formula One Grand Prix
18 Nov 2015
French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis killing 2 including the leader of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud
18 Nov 2015
Two female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano Nigeria killing 15 and injuring over 100
18 Nov 2018
American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island Bay of Bengal by one of worlds most isolated tribe
18 Nov 2018
APEC Summit in Papa New Guinea fails to produce a joint agreement for first time in two decades after US and China clash on definition of trade
18 Nov 2019
Deforestation of Brazils Amazon rainforest worst since 2008 has lost 9762 sq km (3769 sq miles) of vegetation in 12 months according to countrys Space Agency
18 Nov 2019
World wind speeds have risen 3x faster since 2010 than previous decades of decline according to Princeton study published in Nature Climate Change
18 Nov 2020
Floods and landslides effect more than 3 million people killing at least 70 in wake of Typhoon Vamco in Cagayan Province Philippines
18 Nov 2020
Thailands parliament agrees to reforms but not to the monarchy after massive public protests were met by tear gas and water canons
18 Nov 2020
US COVID-19 death toll passes 250000 recorded cases at 11.5 million hospitalizations at 76830 amid a country-wide surge
18 Nov 2021
US judge exonerates Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965 saying they were wrongly convicted after 55 years [1]
18 Nov 2022
International Bureau of Weights and Measures votes to abandon the leap second to take effect in 2035 originally inserted in 1972 to reconcile atomic and astronomical time scales [1]
18 Nov 2024
Russian vetoes a UK-backed ceasefire plan to end Sudans 19-month civil war at the UN Security Council [1]