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1901 The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America.

1906 Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1912 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire.

1921 New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams.

1928 Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture.

1936 The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined.

1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.

1943 RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead.

1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

1950 The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts.

1968 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon.

1978 Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult member killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California.

1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

1984 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine.

1991 The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege.

1993 Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country's white minority.

2002 UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.

2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage.


Born on November 18
1970 Megyn Kelly She played field hockey, basketball, and was a cheerleader in high school.She practiced law for nearly a decade before finding success in broadcast journalism.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content. Maria Sharapova

JOKE OF THE DAY
My annual performance review says I lack “passion and intensity.” I guess management hasn’t seen me alone with a Big Mac.