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Events on the 18th of November in history

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18 Nov 0794 Japanese Emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
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18 Nov 1105 Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
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18 Nov 1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
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18 Nov 1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
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18 Nov 1421 Holland / Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed
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18 Nov 1421 Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in the Netherlands
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18 Nov 1421 Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
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18 Nov 1424 Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
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18 Nov 1477 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
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18 Nov 1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence
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18 Nov 1497 Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
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18 Nov 1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
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18 Nov 1626 St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated
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18 Nov 1667 Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC
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18 Nov 1738 France and Austria sign peace
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18 Nov 1742 Prussia and England sign anti-French military covenant
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18 Nov 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
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18 Nov 1755 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
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18 Nov 1776 Hessians capture Ft Lee, New Jersey
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18 Nov 1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ
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18 Nov 1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
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18 Nov 1793 Louvre officially opens in Paris
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18 Nov 1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
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18 Nov 1804 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
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18 Nov 1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
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18 Nov 1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America
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18 Nov 1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer
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18 Nov 1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
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18 Nov 1833 Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
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18 Nov 1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington (London)
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18 Nov 1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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18 Nov 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
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18 Nov 1883 Standard time zones forms by railroads in US and Canada
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18 Nov 1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
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18 Nov 1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
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18 Nov 1893 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
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18 Nov 1894 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species, " by Richard Outcault
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18 Nov 1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
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18 Nov 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
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18 Nov 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
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18 Nov 1905 George Bernard Shaws "Major Barbara, " premieres in London
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18 Nov 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
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18 Nov 1906 Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea, " premieres in New York City
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18 Nov 1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
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18 Nov 1911 Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
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18 Nov 1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies
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18 Nov 1911 The opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
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18 Nov 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
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18 Nov 1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
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18 Nov 1916 Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
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18 Nov 1918 Brussels free Stofnar
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18 Nov 1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
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18 Nov 1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St, New York City
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18 Nov 1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico
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18 Nov 1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
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18 Nov 1929 Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
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18 Nov 1929 Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
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18 Nov 1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
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18 Nov 1930 Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope / Fred Astaire premieres in New York City
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18 Nov 1932 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
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18 Nov 1932 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March
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18 Nov 1936 Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
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18 Nov 1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
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18 Nov 1939 Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
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18 Nov 1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
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18 Nov 1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
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18 Nov 1942 Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth, " premieres in New York City
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18 Nov 1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin
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18 Nov 1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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18 Nov 1943 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
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18 Nov 1949 NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
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18 Nov 1949 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP
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18 Nov 1950 South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
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18 Nov 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
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18 Nov 1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
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18 Nov 1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
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18 Nov 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
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18 Nov 1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
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18 Nov 1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada and Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen and Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
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18 Nov 1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
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18 Nov 1956 Morocco gains independence
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18 Nov 1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
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18 Nov 1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
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18 Nov 1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
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18 Nov 1959 Washingston Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
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18 Nov 1960 Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
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18 Nov 1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
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18 Nov 1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
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18 Nov 1961 "Kwamina" closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 32 performances
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18 Nov 1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
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18 Nov 1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
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18 Nov 1963 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
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18 Nov 1963 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco)
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18 Nov 1964 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
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18 Nov 1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
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18 Nov 1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
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18 Nov 1966 Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow
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18 Nov 1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays
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18 Nov 1967 British government devalues
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18 Nov 1968 Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted
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18 Nov 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Nov 1970 Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
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18 Nov 1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
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18 Nov 1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations
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18 Nov 1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
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18 Nov 1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
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18 Nov 1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
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18 Nov 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
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18 Nov 1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
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18 Nov 1976 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
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18 Nov 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador / embassy espionage
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18 Nov 1980 Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
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18 Nov 1980 Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
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18 Nov 1980 "Heaven's Gate" premiers
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18 Nov 1981 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
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18 Nov 1982 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
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18 Nov 1984 "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
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18 Nov 1984 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
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18 Nov 1984 Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
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18 Nov 1984 New Jersey Devils shutout New York Rangers 6-0
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18 Nov 1984 Devils shutout Rangers 6-0
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18 Nov 1984 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
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18 Nov 1985 Dwight Gooden (NL) and Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
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18 Nov 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
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18 Nov 1985 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
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18 Nov 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
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18 Nov 1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution
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18 Nov 1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
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18 Nov 1986 Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
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18 Nov 1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
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18 Nov 1987 Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
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18 Nov 1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
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18 Nov 1989 Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
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18 Nov 1990 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 performances
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18 Nov 1990 NFL New York Giants beat Detroit Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
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18 Nov 1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
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18 Nov 1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
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18 Nov 1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
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18 Nov 1992 "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
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18 Nov 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
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18 Nov 1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
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18 Nov 1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
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18 Nov 1993 NAFTA passes House
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18 Nov 1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
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18 Nov 1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
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18 Nov 1994 "Star Trek VII - Generations, " premieres
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18 Nov 1995 Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
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18 Nov 1997 Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
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18 Nov 1997 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
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18 Nov 1997 Gary Glitter arrested by British police in child porn probe
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18 Nov 1997 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
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18 Nov 1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women, " sold for $4,182,500
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