Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 18
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Steamboat Willie poster -
Flag of Solomon Islands
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Latvia (1918); | lots of CN tags (34), refimprove section |
| National Day in Oman (1940) | unreferenced sections |
| 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, proclaiming "there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins". | refimprove section |
| 1307 – William Tell, a legendary marksman in Switzerland, was said to have successfully shot an apple on his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. | refimprove section |
| 1626 – St. Peter's Basilica, one of four major basilicas of Rome, was consecrated on the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326. | already featured on April 18 |
| 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Marshal Michel Ney's leadership in the Battle of Krasnoi earned him the nickname "the bravest of the brave" despite the overwhelming French defeat. | refimprove section |
| 1878 – Soprano Marie Selika Williams became the first African-American artist to perform at the White House. | Uncertain date |
| 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became Haakon VII, the first King of Norway after the personal union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved. | refimprove |
| 1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – The first push-button telephone was made available to Bell System customers. | 15+ {cn} tags |
| 2007 – In Ukraine's worst mining accident, more than 100 workers were killed in a methane explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine. | tagged with {out of date} |
| 2012 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria took office as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. | missing info |
Eligible
- 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1583 – The Siege of Godesberg, the first major siege of the Cologne War, began.
- 1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain (pictured).
- 1872 – American suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and later fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
- 1977 – Solomon Islands ratified the adoption of a new flag (pictured).
- 1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
- 1985 – Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson that was at its height one of the most popular in the world, was first published.
- 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
- 1991 – The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
- 2003 – With its ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage.
- 2011 – The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.
- 2017 – Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.
- Born/died this day: | Itzam Kʼan Ahk II |b|701| Thomas of Bayeux |d|1100| Philibert Commerson |b|1727| Wilhelmine of Prussia |b|1774| Thomas Burgess |b|1756| Asa Gray |b|1810| Adam Weishaupt |d|1830| Dorothy Dix |b|1861| Clarence Day |b|1874| Mitsuyo Maeda|b|1878| Haguroyama Masaji |b|1914| Wilma Mankiller |b|1945| Maribel Domínguez |b|1978|'Conn Smythe |d|1980| Tara Singh Hayer |d|1998|
Notes
- Fantasia (1940 film) appears on November 13, so Steamboat Willie should not appear in the same year
Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse
- 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captured three ships carrying recruits for the armies of the East India Company.
- 1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, a phrase in an address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was translated into English as "We will bury you", prompting Western envoys to leave the room.
- 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
- 2014 – Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.
- Rose Philippine Duchesne (d. 1852)
- Lise Østergaard (b. 1924)
- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
- Chloë Sevigny (b. 1974)
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