November 18

18Nov2009 In : On this day
Author : FJ

November 18: Independence Day in Latvia (1918); National Day in Oman (1940)

1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, proclaiming “there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins“.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became Haakon VII, the first King of Norway after the personal union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved.
1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav People’s Army forces captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
1999 – Texas A&M University‘s Aggie Bonfire (pictured) collapsed, killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.

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November 18: Battle of Vukovar

The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of the Croatian town of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and paramilitaries from Serbia, between August and November 1991. In 1990, Croatian Serb separatists launched an armed uprising, supported by Serbian President Slobodan Miloševi?, and seized control of Serb-populated areas of Croatia. The JNA intervened in favour of the Croatian Serbs ...

November 17

November 17: International Students' Day 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era. 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole in a maneuver to cut the latter's line of retreat. 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls ...

June 19

June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US, with the New York Nine defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 23–1. 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies ...

November 23

November 23: Labour Thanksgiving Day in Japan; St George's Day in Georgia 1644 – In opposition to licensing and censorship during the English Civil War, John Milton's Areopagitica was published, arguing for the right to free expression. 1890 – William III of the Netherlands died without a living male heir, allowing his ten-year-old daughter Wilhelmina (pictured) to succeed him to the Dutch ...

November 25

November 25: First day of Hajj (Islam, 2009); National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943); Independence Day in Suriname (1975) 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland (pictured) died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots. 1120 – William Adelin, the only ...

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