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18 November, 2004
Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
18 November, 2003
In the UK the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
18 November, 2003
The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyals CPI(ML).
18 November, 2002
Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
18 November, 1999
In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
18 November, 1993
In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
18 November, 1991
Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
18 November, 1991
After the 3-month siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to besieging Yugoslav Peoples Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
18 November, 1988
War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
18 November, 1987
Iran-Contra Affair: The U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contras affair.
18 November, 1987
Kings Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the citys busiest underground station at Kings Cross St Pancras.
18 November, 1984
South Central Los Angeles:The birth of Michael Obando took place at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
18 November, 1982
Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
18 November, 1978
Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
18 November, 1970
U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
18 November, 1943
World War II: Battle of Berlin (air), 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
18 November, 1943
Holocaust: Aktion Emtefest: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews. German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews).
18 November, 1942
Holocaust: German SS carry out selection of Jewish ghetto in Lviv, western Ukraine, arresting 5.000 "unproductive Jews". All get deported to Belzec death camp.
18 November, 1940
World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolinis disastrous invasion of Greece.
18 November, 1938
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
18 November, 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.
18 November, 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. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickeys birthday.
18 November, 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."
18 November, 1918
Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
18 November, 1917
Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
18 November, 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.
18 November, 1909
Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
18 November, 1905
Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
18 November, 1904
General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
18 November, 1903
The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
18 November, 1883
American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
18 November, 1865
Mark Twains story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
18 November, 1863
King Christian IX of Denmark decided to sign the november constitution, which declared Schleswig as part of Denmark, what was seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and lead to the German–Danish war of 1864.
18 November, 1852
Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles Missouri - Canonized 3 July 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
18 November, 1803
The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
18 November, 1686
Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIVs anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
18 November, 1626
St. Peters Basilica is consecrated.
18 November, 1493
Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
18 November, 1477
William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
18 November, 1421
A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
18 November, 1307
According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his sons head.
18 November, 1302
Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy").
18 November, 1095
The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
18 November, 326
The old St. Peters Basilica is consecrated.

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