Notable Historical Events on November 18th
November 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
326 |
Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th - 16th century. Replaced by current St Peter's Basilica in Rome. |
794 |
Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto |
1105 |
Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I |
1210 |
Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV |
1307 |
William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son's head |
1421 |
Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands |
1424 |
Storm flood ravages Dutch coast |
1477 |
First English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton |
1494 |
French King Charles VIII occupies Florence |
1497 |
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope |
1626 |
St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica. Largest Christian basilica |
1667 |
Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC |
1686 |
Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the surgery on several peasants. |
1718 |
Voltaire's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris |
1738 |
France & Austria sign peace |
1742 |
Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle |
1755 |
Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report |
1776 |
Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ |
1787 |
First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston |
1803 |
Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French |
1804 |
Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape |
1805 |
30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America |
1820 |
Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer |
1833 |
Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven |
1835 |
-20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti |
1852 |
State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London) |
1852 |
Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II. |
1865 |
Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
1872 |
American suffragette Susan B Anthony is arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY |
1872 |
Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting |
1874 |
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland |
1883 |
Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres |
1883 |
Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada |
1889 |
Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii |
1893 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus |
1894 |
1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World) |
1894 |
1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species" by Richard Outcault |
1899 |
Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld |
1901 |
The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty |
1902 |
Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt |
1903 |
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama |
1904 |
General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup. |
1905 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" premieres in London |
1905 |
Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway |
1906 |
Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea" premieres in NYC |
1909 |
US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya |
1911 |
Britain's first seaplane flies |
1911 |
Opera "Lobetanz" first American performance |
1913 |
Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) |
1916 |
General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) - over 1 million killed or wounded |
1917 |
Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1918 |
Brussels free Stofnar |
1918 |
Latvia declares independence from Russia |
1919 |
H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene" premieres in NYC |
1920 |
Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC |
1922 |
Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief |
1926 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico |
1928 |
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie" |
1929 |
Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope" |
1929 |
Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places |
1929 |
Stalin routes troops to Manchuria |
1930 |
Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose" premiers in Lenningrad |
1930 |
Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda. |
1932 |
"Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon |
1932 |
1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March |
1932 |
5th Academy Awards - "Grand Hotel", Fredric March, Wallace Beery & Helen Hayes win |
1936 |
Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco |
1936 |
Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined |
1938 |
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
1939 |
Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die |
1940 |
George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. |
1941 |
British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa |
1941 |
Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia |
1942 |
Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC |
1943 |
First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated |
1943 |
444 British bombers attack Berlin |
1943 |
U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
1945 |
Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres |
1949 |
NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP |
1950 |
South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions |
1951 |
"See it Now" premieres on TV |
1951 |
British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt |
1951 |
Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft |
1953 |
Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage |
1954 |
Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal |
1955 |
Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight |
1956 |
Morocco gains independence |
1957 |
Tunisia refuses Russian weapons |
1958 |
1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens |
1958 |
Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay |
1959 |
Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year |
1960 |
Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels |
1960 |
Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration |
1961 |
"Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances |
1961 |
"Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances |
1961 |
JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam |
1961 |
US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed |
1963 |
Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone |
1963 |
Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens |
1963 |
King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco |
1964 |
Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP |
1964 |
J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" |
1965 |
Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP |
1966 |
Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow |
1966 |
US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays |
1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 |
1970 |
Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1970 |
Johnny Bench wins NL MVP |
1970 |
Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds |
1970 |
Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations |
1970 |
Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon |
1971 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1971 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast |
1973 |
Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests |
1973 |
Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC |
1975 |
Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US |
1975 |
Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
1976 |
Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship |
1976 |
Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett |
1978 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under leadership of cult leader Jim Jones |
1979 |
Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage |
1980 |
"Heaven's Gate" premieres |
1980 |
Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP |
1980 |
Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969) |
1981 |
Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
1982 |
Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World |
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. |
1984 |
"3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances |
1984 |
72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17 |
1984 |
Browns set team records for most sacks (11) |
1984 |
Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders |
1984 |
NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0 |
1985 |
Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young |
1985 |
Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport |
1985 |
Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons) |
1985 |
Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us" |
1986 |
Roger Clemens wins AL MVP |
1987 |
31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station |
1987 |
Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair |
1987 |
Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st player from a last-place club to win an MVP |
1989 |
Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so |
1990 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs |
1990 |
1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA |
1990 |
NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0 |
1991 |
France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti |
1991 |
Moslem Shi'ites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland |
1991 |
Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations & is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92 |
1992 |
"Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US |
1992 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM |
1993 |
27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador |
1993 |
Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution |
1993 |
NAFTA passes House |
1993 |
North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C) |
1993 |
Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness |
1993 |
WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution |
1994 |
"Star Trek VII - Generations" premieres |
1995 |
Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World |
1995 |
Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen |
1996 |
Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder |
1997 |
Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft |
1997 |
FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash |
1997 |
70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe |
1997 |
Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games |
1997 |
Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000 |
1997 |
Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500 |
1999 |
In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses. |
2001 |
Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as 'ConocoPhillips', the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US |
2002 |
Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
2003 |
The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML). |
2003 |
In England, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective |
2004 |
Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol. |
2007 |
34th American Music Award: Fergie, Justin Timberlake & Carrie Underwood win |
2011 |
Former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested and held at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage |
2012 |
Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix |
2012 |
Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets |
2012 |
Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup |
2012 |
39th American Music Award: Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win |
2012 |
101st Davis Cup: Czech Republic beats Spain in Prague (3-2) |
2013 |
20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt |
2015 |
ISIS claims they used soda can bomb in Metrojet crash |
2016 |
Mike Trout, Kris Bryant win baseball's MVP awards |
2016 |
Peggy Whitson: Oldest woman in space blasts off to ISS |
2016 |
Tesla shareholders approve $2.6bn SolarCity takeover |
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