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

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1095 - The Council of Clermont began. The council was called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy"), which historians consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made.
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 - A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1477Events January 5 Battle of Nancy Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated by the Swiss, and this time is killed. Swedish University of Uppsala founded. November 18 William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English b - William CaxtonWilliam Caxton (c. 1491) was the first English printer. He was born in Kent, and came to London as apprentice to a mercer, a dealer in cloth. In 1446, he departed for Bruges, where he was successful in business and became governor of the Merchant Adventur produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England book printed on a printing pressThe printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. First invented in China in 1041, the printing press as we know it today was invented in the West by a German goldsmith and eventual printer, Johan.
1626Events September 30 Nurhaci , chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji. Spanish establish a trading colony on Taiwan. Peter Minuit, director of the New Netherland colony, begins a policy of "pur - St. Peter's BasilicaPeter's Basilica ( Italian San Pietro in Vaticano is a Catholic major basilica in Vatican City, an enclave of Rome. This building is often described as the largest church ever built (it covers an area of 23,000 m² and has a capacity of over 60,000) and on is consecrated
1686Events The League of Augsburg is founded. Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire. September 2 The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from the Ottoman Turkish rule that leads to the end - Charles Francois Felix operates on King of France Louis XIV's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1865 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press .
1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of dictator Jose Santos Zelaya.
1916 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of Cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
1929 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake : Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.
1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
1943 - World War II: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 aviators.
1959 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loew's Theater in New York City.
1970 - US President Richard Nixon asks the United States Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
1970 - Singer Jerry Lee Lewis divorces his third wife, Myra Gail , after 12 years.
1971 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release an untitled album, often dubbed " Led Zeppelin IV," featuring "Rock & Roll," "Stairway to Heaven" and other classic songs.
1978 - Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his People's Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.
1982 - Duk Koo Kim died unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, was first published.
1987 - Iran-Contra scandal: The United States Congress issues its final report on the Iran- Contra affair, stating that US President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides and his administration exhibited "secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law."
1987 - Kings Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross.
1988 - War on Drugs: US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
1991 - After 3 month siege Vukovar is invaded by Serbians
1993 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
1996 - World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.
1997 - Gary Glitter is arristed in the United Kingdom on child porn charges.
1998 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy .
1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 28 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
1999 - In Jasper, Texas, 24-year old Shawn Allen Berry is sentenced to life in prison, becoming the third person convicted in the racially-motivated dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 - The Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, becomes effective.

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