Historical Events In November - 18

1923  On November - 18 alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)   

1925  On November - 18 alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)   

1926  Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico on this day in history.   

1926  On November - 18 dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)   

1927  CBC boradcaster Knowlton Nash is born on November - 18.   

1927  Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer on November - 18.   

1928  Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in"Steamboat Willie" on November - 18.   

1928  On this day in history walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"   

1928  On this day in history mickey Mouse, cartoon strip   

1929  Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places on November - 18.   

1929  On November - 18 dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"   

1929  On this day in history william Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)   

1929  On this day in history henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78   

1930  On this day in history musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC   

1932  "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon on November - 18.   

1932  Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973) on November - 18.   

1933  Jacques Charpentier, composer on November - 18.   

1934  Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador on November - 18.   

1936  On November - 18 germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco   

1936  Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined on November - 18.   

1936  On November - 18 germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco   

1938  On November - 18 canadian author Margaret Atwood is born   

1938  Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations on November - 18.   

1939  Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die on November - 18.   

1940  On November - 18 george Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb   

1940  On this day in history george Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.   

1941  British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa on November - 18.   

1941  On this day in history walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77   

1942  On this day in history thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC   

1943  1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated on this day in history.   

1945  On November - 18 arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orch & mixed choir, premieres   

1946  On November - 18 donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86   

1949  NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP on November - 18.   

1950  On November - 18 south Korea Pres Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions   

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1522  On this day in history birth of lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)   

1527  On this day in history birth of luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor   

1630  On this day in history birth of eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)   

1680  On November - 18 birth of jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer   

1727  Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773) was born on November - 18.   

1736  Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer was born on this day in history.   

1742  Felix Maximo Lopez, composer was born on November - 18.   

1772  On November - 18 birth of louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer   

0942  On November - 18 odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies   

1154  Death of Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092) on November - 18.   

1170  On November - 18 albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70   

1305  On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)   

1559  Death of Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474) on this day in history.   

1590  On November - 18 death of george Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)   

1603  On November - 18 elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61   

1630  Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on November - 18.