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Today in History ~ November 18
Events1307 - William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing 10,000 in Netherlands
1477 - "The Sayings of the Philosophers" ("Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers") was published. It is the earliest known book printed in England to carry a date. [H]
1497 - Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1626 - St Peter's Basilica opens in Rome
1718 - Voltaire's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
1776 - Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 - 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1804 - Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
1820 - Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1835 - -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
1852 - State funeral of Duke of Wellington (London)
1860 - Georgia legislature votes $1,000,000 to arm the state
1861 - Fifth session of the Provisional Confederate Congress meets in Richmond, Virginia
1865 - Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1874 - The National Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in Cleveland, Ohio.
1883 - Antonin Dvorak's "Husite Overture," premieres
1883 - Standard time zones form by railroads in US & Canada set up four zones -- Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. [H]
1894 - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1902 - Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1905 - George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," premieres in London
1909 - US invades Nicaragua again, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1916 - Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1919 - H Tierney's & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his screen debut in the landmark "Steamboat Willie" at the Colony Theater in New York City. The Walt Disney cartoon was the first with synchronized sound.
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
1936 - Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco
1936 - Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1939 - Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1941 - British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941 - Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 - Thornton Wilder's "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 - 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 - U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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 is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1955 - Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1958 - 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military "advisors" to South Vietnam
1963 - Push-button telephones made their debut. Touch-tone service was available as an option for an extra charge.
1964 - J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1966 - US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1970 - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1973 - Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 - Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1976 - Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1978 - 914 people died in a mass suicide-murder led by the Rev. Jim Jones at the People's Temple commune in Guyana, following the murder of Rep. Leo Ryan, R-Calif. It was the largest mass suicide in modern history. [H]
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 - "Heaven's Gate" premieres
1987 - 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1989 - Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 - France deports Marlon Brando's daughter Cheyenne to Tahiti
1991 - Moslem Shiites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1992 - "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 - It was Doomsday for Superman as the comic book detailing the superhero's death -- rumored to be temporary only -- hit newsstands.
1993 - NAFTA passes House
1993 - South Africa's ruling National Party and leaders of 20 other parties representing blacks and whites approved a new national constitution that provides fundamental rights to blacks.
1994 - Palestinian police opened fire on Islamic militants outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip, sparking riots that killed at least 14 people and injured 200.
1994 - "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres
1996 - A 16-year CIA veteran was arrested for spying as he tried to board a plane at Washington's Dulles International Airport.
1997 - Five suspected agents for Libya went on trial in Berlin for the 1996 bombing of a nightclub that killed three people.
1997 - FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 - Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 - Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500
2002 - International schools in Jakarta were closed following warnings from the United States and Australia they could be the target of terrorist attacks.
Birthdays Today
1527 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1736 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1786 - Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, German composer (Der Freischutz)
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French painter (daguerreotype)
1787 - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
1789 - Louis Daguerre (theater scene painter, physicist, inventor: daguerreotype photographic process)
1824 - Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1836 - Cesare Lombroso (professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types)
1836 - Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (comic opera libretto writer: team: Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance)
1860 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1874 - Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father)
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano
1882 - Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)
1899 - Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch)
1901 - Craig Wood (golf champion: PGA Hall of Famer: Masters [1941], U.S. Open [1941])
1901 - George Gallup (pollster whose opinion polls became famous by predicting FDR's win in 1935)
1908 - Imogene Coca (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Your Show of Shows [1951]; Sid Caesar Invites You, It's about Time, Grindl, Admiral Broadway Revue, National Lampoon's Vacation)
1909 - Johnny Mercer (Academy Award-winning composer, lyricist: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [1946], In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening [w/Hoagy Carmichael] [1951], Moon River [1961], Days of Wine and Roses [1962], Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby, Charade, Satin Doll, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Come Rain or Come Shine, Hooray for Hollywood, Jeepers Creepers, I'm An Old Cowhand, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive; wrote or co-wrote over a thousand songs)
1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci (singer: opera soprano)
1919 - Jocelyn Brando (actress: A Question of Love, The Big Heat)
1923 - Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14) first American in space)
1925 - Gene Mauch (baseball manager: Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Angels)
1926 - Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) (singer: My Boy Flattop, Your Hit Parade, sang with Benny Goodman band; actress: Follies)
1926 - Roy Sievers (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals outfielder: Rookie of the Year [1949])
1936 - Hank Ballard (singer, songwriter: group: The Midniters: The Twist, Finger Poppin' Time, Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Work with Me Annie, Sexy Ways, Annie Had a Baby)
1938 - Karl Schranz (skier)
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro (Emmy Award-winning actress: The Shape of Things [1973-74]; Once is Not Enough, Cactus Flower, The Goodbye People, How Now Dow Jones, Midnight Cowboy, Airport '77, Ten Little Indians)
1939 - Margaret Atwood (author: Cat's Eye, Dancing Girls & Other Stories)
1941 - Gary Bettenhausen (auto racer: fastest Indy 500 qualifying time ever: 224.468 mph [1991])
1942 - Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1942 - Linda Evans (Evanstad) (actress: Dynasty, The Big Valley, Standing Tall, Hunter, North and South, Book II)
1944 - Susan Sullivan (actress: It's a Living, Falcon Crest, Rich Man Poor Man Book II, Having Babies, The George Carlin Show, The Dark Ride, The Incredible Hulk, Deadman's Curve; commercial spokesperson: Tylenol)
1948 - Jack Tatum (football: Oakland Raiders safety: longest fumble return in history: 104 yards [1972 against the Green Bay Packers]; Super Bowl XI)
1950 - Jameson Parker (actor: Simon & Simon, Prince of Darkness, A Small Circle of Friends, American Justice, Anatomy of a Seduction)
1953 - Kevin Nealon (actor: Saturday Night Live, All I Want for Christmas, Roxanne)
1956 - Warren Moon (football: Minnesota Vikings, Houston Oilers quarterback)
1968 - Gary Sheffield (baseball)
Famous deaths
1678 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1841 - Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1883 - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 - Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1911 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1922 - Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 - Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1969 - Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1978 - Rev. Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 - Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of People's Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members [H]
1992 - Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1994 - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
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