November 18<\/p>\n
326 \u2013 The old St. Peter’s Basilica on Vatican Hill in Rome is consecrated.<\/p>\n
1095 \u2013 The Council of Clermont begins, leading to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.<\/p>\n
1626 \u2013 The new St Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.<\/p>\n
1872 \u2013 Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested in New York for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.<\/p>\n
1883 \u2013 American and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones, ending ‘local time’.<\/p>\n
1901 \u2013 The Hay\u2013Pauncefote Treaty<\/em> is signed by Britain and the United States nullifying the Clayton\u2013Bulwer Treaty<\/em> and withdrawing British objections to an American controlled Panama Canal.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The Hay\u2013Bunau-Varilla Treaty<\/em> is signed by Panama and the United States, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 Due to 2 Americans, being included with 500 Nicaraguan revolutionaries and executed by order of President Jos\u00e9 Santos Zelaya, the U.S. sends 2 warships, USS Des Moines<\/em> (CL-17) and USS Tacoma<\/em> (CL-20) with 700 U.S. Marines aboard, along with other vessels to follow later, to stage an invasion and occupation of the country.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 The animated short Steamboat Willie, noted as the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks debuts;\u00a0 and this date is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 DTMF – Dual Tone Multi Frequency – “Touch Tone” telephone dialing goes into service.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder\u2013suicide that claims 918 lives.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 At Texas A&M University, the ‘Aggie Bonfire’, a long standing annual tradition as part of the college rivalry with the University of Texas at Austin,\u00a0collapses during construction, killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Under pwers of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, UN WMD weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health<\/em> that the state’s ban on homosexual marriage is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 NASA launches the MAVEN<\/em> (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) probe on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,\u00a0to Mars.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016 in northern San Juan County, is discovered by state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources while carrying out an aerial survey of bighorn sheep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 18 326 \u2013 The old St. Peter’s Basilica on Vatican Hill in Rome is consecrated. 1095 \u2013 The Council of Clermont begins, leading to the First Crusade to the Holy Land. 1626 \u2013 The new St Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. 1872 \u2013 Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested in New York … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97821,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61904\/revisions\/97821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}