Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 18
This is a list of selected November 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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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 | tagged with {out of date} |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).
- 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 East Indiamen mainly carrying recruits for the Indian Army.
- 1872 – American suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
- 1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys, prompting them 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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