SomeFacts | November 18

On this day - November 18

326 — The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope ...

401 — The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade ...

1095 — The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it ...

1105 — Maginulfo is elected Antipope Sylvester IV in opposition to ...

1210 — Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV ...

1302 — Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, ...

1421 — St Elizabeth's flood: A dike in the Grote Hollandse Waard ...

1493 — Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as ...

1601 — Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, an Ottoman provincial governor, routs the ...

1626 — The new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is consecrated.

1730 — The future Frederick the Great of Prussia is granted a pardon ...

1760 — The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in ...

1803 — The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian ...

1809 — Napoleonic Wars: In a naval action, French frigates defeat ...

1812 — Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, ...

1863 — King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution ...

1867 — An earthquake strikes the Virgin Islands, triggering the ...

1872 — Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting ...

1883 — In the "day of two noons", American and Canadian ...

1889 — Elisha P. Ferry is inaugurated as first governor of Washington.

1901 — Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, ...

1903 — The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States ...

1905 — Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.

1909 — Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 ...

1910 — In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of ...

1916 — World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British ...

1918 — Latvia declares its independence from Russia.

1928 — Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first ...

1929 — Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in ...

1940 — World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign ...

1943 — World War II: In the first action of the Berlin Air Offensive, ...

1944 — The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.

1947 — The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, ...

1949 — The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu ...

1961 — Vietnam War: United States President John F. Kennedy sends ...

1963 — The Bell Telephone Company introduces the first push-button ...

1970 — U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 ...

1971 — Oman declares its independence from the United Kingdom.

1978 — In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a ...

1978 — The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at ...

1983 — Aeroflot Flight 6833 is hijacked en route from Tbilisi to ...

1985 — The first comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published in ten ...

1987 — King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at ...

1991 — The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, which ...

1991 — After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar ...

1991 — Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church ...

1993 — In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new ...

1993 — In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement ...

1996 — A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel ...

1999 — At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses ...

2002 — Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led ...

2003 — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in ...

2012 — Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the ...

2013 — NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

2020 — The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016 is discovered by ...