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Today In History - November 18 |
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1497 Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1527 Luca Cambiaso 1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet 1736 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch 1742 Felix Maximo Lopez 1772 Louis Ferdinand 1781 Felice Blangini 1786 Henry Rowley Bishop 1786 Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber 1787 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre 1787 Sojourner Truth 1803 Cornelius Broere 1808 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart 1810 Asa Gray 1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts 1812 Jesse Johnson Finley 1824 Franz Sigel 1824 Isham Nicholas Hayne 1832 Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold 1835 Americus Vespucius Rice 1835 Cesare Lombroso 1836 Maximo Gomez 1836 William Gilbert 1836 William Schwenck Gilbert 1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1863 Richard Dehmel 1869 James E. Sullivan 1871 Amadeo Vives 1874 Carrie White 1874 Clarence Shepard Day 1874 Riccardo Martin 1877 Arthur C. Pigou 1881 Percy Lesueur 1882 Amelita Galli-Curci 1882 Jacques Maritain 1882 Wyndham Lewis 1887 Dorothy Dix 1888 Frances Marion 1889 Maria Realino 1895 Ernst Levy 1897 Jules Buffano 1899 Eugene Ormandy 1900 Constantin Alajalov 1900 Howard Thurman 1901 George Gallup 1902 Barbara Giuranna 1902 Jorgen Nielsen 1903 Lillian Fuchs 1904 Guido Santorsola 1906 George Wald 1906 Klaus Mann 1907 Halldis Vesaas-Moren 1908 Imogene Coca 1909 Johnny Mercer 1910 Friedrich Weinreb 1912 Arthur Peterson 1912 Jaap Meijer 1916 James L. Lyons 1919 Jocelyn Brando 1920 Alfred William Bedford 1920 Louis Alfred Mennini 1921 Peter Pocklington 1922 Luis Somoza Debayle 1922 Marjorie Gestring 1922 Viktor Afanasiev 1923 Alan B. Shepard 1923 Ted Stevens 1925 Alex Macintosh 1925 William Robert Mayer 1926 Dorothy Collins 1926 Kim Besly 1927 Lawrence Kenneth Moss 1928 Mickey Mouse 1929 William Joseph "Pete" Knight 1930 J. G. Ballard 1930 Sonja Ruthstrom 1933 Jacques Charpentier 1935 Frank Joseph Kofsky 1936 Don E. Cherry 1936 Hank Ballard 1937 Rajinder Pal 1938 Karl Schranz 1939 Brenda Vaccaro 1939 John Cheek 1939 Margaret E. Atwood 1939 Tom Johnson 1941 David Hemmings 1942 Jeffrey Siegel 1942 Linda Evans 1942 Qabus bin Said 1943 Susan Sullivan 1945 Glen Walken 1946 Alan Dean Foster 1946 Amanda Lear 1947 Jameson Parker 1948 Andrea Marcovicci 1948 Jack Tatum 1948 Ural Nazibovich Sultanov 1949 Bonnie St. Claire 1949 Ted Sator 1950 Graham Parker 1951 Marga Stubblefield 1951 Mark N. Brown 1952 Delroy Lindo 1953 John McFee 1953 Kevin Nealon 1954 Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe 1956 Katey Sagal 1956 Sinbad 1956 Tony Franklin 1956 Warren Moon 1957 Jenny Burton 1960 Elizabeth Perkins 1960 Kim Wilde 1961 Janice Lynn Kuehnemund 1962 Jamie Moyer 1962 Jill Briles-Hinton 1962 Kirk Hammett 1962 Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin 1963 Dante Bichette 1964 Mike Withycombe 1964 Seth Joyner 1964 Shawn Sheldon 1965 Mark Petkovsek 1965 Matt Kabayama 1966 Darren Flutie 1966 Gwendolyn Hajek 1966 Ron Coomer 1966 Tommie Stowers 1967 Jocelyn Lemieux 1967 Tom Gordon 1968 Gary Sheffield 1968 Lubomir Sekeras 1968 Mel Stewart 1968 Milica Vukadinovic 1968 Owen Wilson 1969 Cheryl Bachman 1969 Lee Anne Ketcham 1969 Raghib Ismail 1969 Sam Cassell 1970 Allen Watson 1970 Phil Buckman 1970 Toby Wright 1971 Kylie Hanigan 1972 Jason Arnberger 1973 Steve Christopher Petree 1974 Autumn Smith 1974 Christian Schmidt 1976 Sandy Zubrin |
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794 Japanese Emperor Kammu surrenders residence of Nara to Kioto 1105 Maginulf is elected anti-Pope Silvester I 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV 1307 William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head 1421 Holland and Zealand dikes break in a storm: thousands of people are killed 1477 The first English printed book "Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers" 1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence 1497 Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope 1667 Treaty of Bongaja 1718 Voltaires "Oedipe" premieres in Paris 1738 France and Austria sign a peace accord 1742 Prussia and England sign an anti-French military covenant 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle 1755 Worst earthquake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston 1776 The Hessians capture Ft. Lee, NJ 1787 The first Unitarian minister in the U.S. is ordained 1793 The Louvre officially opens in Paris 1803 The Battle of Vertieres 1804 Palver Purim first celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape 1805 Female Charitable Society forms: the first woman's club in America 1805 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean and become the first Americans to cross the continent 1820 Antarctica is discovered by U.S. Navy Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer 1833 The Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven 1835 Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti 1852 State funeral of duke of Wellington is held in London 1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1874 The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1883 Standard time zones formed by railroads in U.S. and Canada 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii 1893 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Providentissimus Deus 1894 The first comic strip "Origin of a New Species" by Richard Outcault 1894 The first newspaper Sunday color comic section is published in the New York World 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt 1903 The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway 1909 The U.S. invades Nicaragua 1911 Britain's first seaplane flies 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop 1916 General Douglas Haig calls off the first Battle of the Somme in Europe 1918 Latvia declares its independence from Russia 1922 The Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief 1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical on the persecution of the Church in Mexico 1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie" 1929 Dr. Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates the "kinescope" 1929 Large earthquake in the Atlantic breaks the Transatlantic cable in 28 places 1929 Stalin routes troops to Manchuria 1932 "Flowers and Trees" receives the first Academy Award for a cartoon 1932 The first tie for Best Actor Academy Award: Wallace Beery and Fredric March 1936 Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco 1936 The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge joined 1939 Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits a German mine and 86 people die 1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa 1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin, Germany 1943 The first U.S. ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated 1943 The U-211 sinks in the Atlantic Ocean 1949 NL batting leader Jackie Robinson wins the NL MVP 1950 South Korea President Syngman Rhee is forced to end mass executions 1951 British troops occupy Ismailiya Egypt 1953 The Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accepts female suffrage 1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane is taken up for its first powered flight 1956 Morocco gains independence 1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons 1958 The first true reservoir in Jerusalem opens 1960 The US Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration 1961 John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam 1961 U.S. Ranger 2 is launched to Moon: it fails 1963 Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone 1963 England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens 1963 King Hassan II opens the first parliament in Morocco 1964 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins the AL MVP 1964 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as a "most notorious liar" 1966 Sandy Koufax announces his retirement 1966 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1966 The U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays 1967 The British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 1968 Military coup in Mali: President Keita is ousted 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title 1970 Johnny Bench wins the NL MVP 1970 Linus Pauling declares that large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds 1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations 1970 Russia lands a self propelled rover on Moon 1971 the China PR performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests 1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to the U.S. 1976 Spain's parliament establishes a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship 1978 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges the U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage 1980 Honduras and El Salvador sign a peace agreement 1982 Mariasela Alvarez of the Dominican Republic is crowned the 32nd Miss World 1986 Roger Clemens wins the AL MVP 1987 31 people die in a fire at King's Cross: London's busiest subway station 1987 A Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair 1989 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so 1990 Saddam Hussein 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 and Thomas Sutherland 1993 27 people are killed at a prison in Morazan, El Salvador 1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve a new democratic constitution 1993 NAFTA passes the House of Representatives 1993 North-Siberia record cold for November: -55°C 1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder is arrested for public drunkiness 1994 "Star Trek VII - Generations" premieres 1995 Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano of Venezuela is crowned the 45th Miss World 1996 The Eappens hire Louise Woodward as their nanny, later she's charged with murder 1997 FBI says there was no evidence of foul play in the 1996 TWA 800 crash 1997 A rare black pearl necklace is auctioned for record $902,000 1997 The Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," is sold for $4,182,500 |
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