11-17-2013, 07:41 PM
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November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist.
1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing.
1926 ~ George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 ~ The animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, was released.
1968 ~ Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, awarded the The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco.
1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children.
2003 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
2004 ~ Fox hunting outlawed in England and Wales.
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