This Day in History
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
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Haig ends Battle of Somme
Douglas Haig commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I calls off the Battle of the Somme in France after nearly five months of mass slaughte...
Volkswagen’s “Dream Factory†opens in Resende, Brazil
On this day in 1996 a revolutionary new Volkswagen factory opens in Resende Brazil. The million-square-meter Resende factory did not have an ordinary assembly...
Terry Waite released
Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon free Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after more than four years of captivity. Waite looking thinner and his hair grayer ...
South Vietnamese fight first major battle after U.S. troops are withdrawn
Sixty South Vietnamese men are killed or wounded when their troops clash with communist forces in the Mekong Delta. The North Vietnamese lost only 14 men. A S...
South Vietnamese conduct largest air assault to date
In the largest air assault of the war thus far 116 U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft fly 1100 South Vietnamese troops into Binh Duong and Tay Ninh Provinces ...
Nixon appeals to Congress for funds for Cambodia
President Nixon asks Congress for supplemental appropriations for the Cambodian government of Premier Lon Nol. Nixon requested 155 million in new funds for Ca...
Sandy Koufax retires
On November 18 1966 Sandy Koufax the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old and he was retiring after a gr...
Chester Arthur dies in New York
On this day in 1886 former President Chester Alan Arthur succumbs to complications from a debilitating and fatal kidney ailment known as Brights Diseas...
Railroads create the first time zones
At exactly noon on this day American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local tim...
Billy Joel earns his first #1 album when 52nd Street tops the Billboard pop chart
At just 16 William Martin Joel of Hicksville Long Island got his first taste of chart success playing piano on the Shangri-Las 1 hit Leader o...
Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award
On this day Alice McDermott beats out front-runner Tom Wolfe for the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy losing a bet with her children.McDermot...
Tom Cruise weds, again
On this day in 2006 the actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are married in a Church of Scientology ceremony at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracci...
Commuters die in subway fire
A fire in a London subway station kills 30 commuters and injures scores of others on this day in 1987. It is the worst fire in the history of the citys ...
High-profile expert on exotic birds is sentenced for smuggling parrots
Tony Silva a world-renowned expert and outspoken protector of exotic birds is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot ...
Congress issues final report on Iran-Contra scandal
After nearly a year of hearings into the Iran-Contra scandal the joint Congressional investigating committee issues its final report. It concluded that the sc...
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