11-18-2004, 08:31 AM
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November 18th
1421 ~ A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike broke, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1626 ~ St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated.
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist.
1883 ~ American and Canadian railroads instituted five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme ended - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916. (Stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing)
1928 ~ Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the Cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
1978 ~ Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones lead his People's Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.
1991 ~ Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.
2003 ~ The Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, became effective.
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