November 18

November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining.

Events:

• 1307 (Legendary) - William Tell[?] shoots an apple off his son's head
• 1421 - Zuider Zee floods, killing over 100,000 people in the Netherlands
• 1477 - The first English printing press
• 1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers the Cape of Good Hope
• 1820 - Antarctica discovered
• 1883 - United States and Canadian railroads institute time zones
• 1903 - Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States exclusive canal rights in Panama
• 1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
• 1909 - United States invades Nicaragua
• 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire
• 1916 - First Battle of the Somme ends
• 1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia
• 1928 - Mickey Mouse cartoon character debuts
• 1929 - The November 18, 1929 offshore earthquake, slump and tsunami.
• 1976 - The Cortes of Spain declares the country a democracy
• 1978 - Mass suicide by members of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana
• 1987 - King's Cross fire
• 2002 - UN inspectors arrive in Iraq

Births:

• 1757 - William Blake, poet
• 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, composer (+ 1826)
• 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, inventor, photographer (+ 1851)
• 1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, dramatist (+ 1911)
• 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, professor of psychiatry, founder of criminology
• 1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov[?], Grand Duke of Russia (+ 1929)
• 1860 - Ignacy Paderewski[?], pianist, composer
• 1861 - Dorothy Dix[?], journalist, activist (+ 1951)
• 1898 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
• 1899 - Eugene Ormandy[?], conductor (+ 1985)
• 1901 - George Gallup, statistician, opinion pollster
• 1906 - Klaus Mann, publicist, dramatist and narrator (+ 1949)
• 1908 - Imogene Coca[?], actress, comedienne (+ 2001)
• 1909 - Johnny Mercer, lyricist (+ 1976)
• 1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci[?], opera soprano
• 1923 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (+ 1998)
• 1935 - Alain Barrière[?]
• 1935 - Rudolf Bahro[?], dissident (+ 1997)
• 1936 - Hank Ballard, musician
• 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro[?], actress
• 1939 - Margaret Atwood, writer
• 1941 - Gary Bettenhausen[?], automobile racer
• 1942 - Linda Evans[?], actress
• 1944 - Susan Sullivan[?], actress
• 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci[?], singer, actress
• 1948 - Jack Tatum[?], American football star
• 1950 - Jameson Parker[?], cator
• 1958 - Warren Moon, Canadian football and American football star
• 1960 - Kim Wilde[?], singer
• 1968 - Owen Wilson[?], actor

Deaths:

• 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
• 1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist
• 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States
• 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.[?], patriarch of the Kennedy family
• 1976 - Man Ray, artist
• 1978 - Jim Jones, cult leader (suicide)
• 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, boxer
• 1987 - Jacques Anquetil[?]
• 1994 - Cab Calloway, band leader
• 1999 - Paul Bowles, novelist
• 2002 - James Coburn, actor

Holidays and Observances:

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