This day in history – November 18

• 326 Old St. Peter’s Basilica consecrated in Rome (stood 4th – 16th century), later replaced by current Basilica.

• 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.

• 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope.

• 1718 Voltaire’s “Oedipe” premieres in Paris.

• 1820 Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer.

• 1865 Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”.

• 1872 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting.

• 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt.

• 1905 George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara” premieres in London.

• 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs first airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego).

• 1928 Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” released, first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.

• 1929 Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places.

• 1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.

• 1940 George Matesky, New York City’s Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

• 1959 “Ben-Hur” directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston premieres in New York City (Academy Awards Best Picture 1960).

• 1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration.

• 1963 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone.

• 1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds.

• 1980 “Heaven’s Gate” film directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken premieres – one of the biggest box office bombs ever.

• 1984 NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”, based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children.

• 1985 Paul McCartney releases “Spies Like Us”.

• 1987 31 people die in a fire at King’s Cross, London’s busiest tube station.

• 1992 “Malcolm X” film directed by Spike Leestarring Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett is released in the US.

• 1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador.

• 1993 Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution.

• 1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkenness.

• 1994 “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres.

• 1996 “Star Trek: First Contact” film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres

• 1997 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) 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.

• 1997 Metallica release the album “ReLoad”.

• 1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.

• 2011 Video game Minecraft is officially released by Mojang.

• 2013 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt.

• 2015 French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis, killing 2 including the leader of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

• 2015 2 female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano, Nigeria, killing 15 and injuring over 100.

Source: www.onthisday.com