November 18th

1210: Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1307: William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421: Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
1477: 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
1494: French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
1738: France & Austria sign peace
1742: Prussia & England sign anti-French military covenant
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
1755: Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776: Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787: 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1793: Louvre officially opens in Paris
1803: Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1805: Lewis&Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
1805: Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1820: Antarctica discovered 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 (London)
1872: Susan B Anthony arrested trying to vote in Rochester NY.
1874: National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883: Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
1889: Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1894: 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1902: Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1903: Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1905: Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1909: US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1911: Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1912: Albania declares independence from Turkey
1916: Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1918: Brussels free Stofnar
1918: Latvia declares independence from Russia
1922: Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdl Medjid kalief
1926: Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1928: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929: Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929: Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929: Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1936: Germany&Italy recognized Spanish gov of Francisco Franco
1936: Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1939: Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940: George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb
1941: British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941: Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1943: 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
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: British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
1953: Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
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
1960: Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961: "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 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: England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens
1963: King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
1964: J.Edgar Hoover describes M.Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1966: US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970: Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970: Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971: China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1973: Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1976: Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1978: Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1984: "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1985: Enterprise(OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
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's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991: Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1993: 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993: Black&white leaders in S.Africa approve new democratic constitution
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
1997: FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997: Gary Glitter arrested by British police in child porn probe
1997: Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997: Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500