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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

A Day as Today - Dorian's Secrets — *Events that Happened “A Day as Today”*

November 18 – A Day as Today

656: in Spain the VII Council of Toledo begins.
871: in Wasit (Iraq) an earthquake is registered that leaves a balance of 20,000 victims. (Possibly it is the same earthquake that was recorded as happened on June 22, 872).
1096: in Spain, Pedro I, king of Navarra and Aragon, conquers Huesca.
1226: near the Kurdish village of Halabja, about 240 km northeast of Baghdad (Iraq) at 06:00 (local time) an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter seismological scale (intensity IX) with epicenter at a depth of 9 km. Saddam Hussein and General Ali Hassan al-Mayid (“Ali the Chemist”) carried out the chemical attack on Halabja in 1988, with more than 5000 civilian victims.
1307: in Switzerland, according to legend, the national hero William Tell performs the feat of hitting an apple placed on the head of his son.
1421: In the Netherlands, between the night of the 18th and the early morning of the 19th, a torrential storm breaks a dike in Wieldrecht. Some 72 villages are swallowed up by the waters and between 2,000 and 10,000 people die. All of Holland and Zealand are under water. (Flood of the day of Santa Isabel).
1434: in Spain, Juan II of Castile, in gratitude for the services rendered, makes a donation from the town of Rute (Córdoba) to his doncel Ramiro Yáñez de Barnuevo y Sotomayor.
1517: in Spain, Carlos I arrives in Valladolid, where the rivalries between the Flemish and Spanish aristocracy will soon become apparent.
1541: in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo finishes the fresco The Last Judgment.
1667: in Shamakhi (Azerbaijan) an earthquake is registered that leaves a balance of 80,000 victims.
1727: in Tabriz (Iran) there is an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 on the scale of surface wave magnitude (intensity X) with an epicenter at a depth of 15 km, leaving a toll of 77,000 victims. (Possibly it is the same earthquake that was recorded as happened on April 26, 1721).
1738: signing of the Treaty of Vienna of 1738, which ends the so-called War of the Polish Succession.
1755: in Boston (United States) there is an earthquake that leaves no victims. See Earthquakes before the 20th century.
1803: in Vertières, near the French cape, in the north of the former French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the indigenous leader Jean J. Dessalines definitively defeats the French troops.
1809: during the Spanish War of Independence, the Spanish army organized by the Central Board is defeated in the Battle of Ocaña, in Ocaña.
1818: in Paraguay, the Government of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia divides the Republic into six electoral departments and implements the secret ballot.
1820: in Ecuador, the town of Loja becomes independent from the Spanish Empire.
1823: in Lima (Peru), Congress appoints General José Bernardo de Tagle as the first constitutional president of the Republic of Peru.
1824: the Federal District is created in Mexico as the capital of the Republic, with headquarters in Mexico City.
1829: in Anhui (China) an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter seismological scale (intensity VII) is registered, which leaves a balance of “many” dead.
1846: in Spain the School of Forest Engineers is established in Villaviciosa de Odón.
1852: the city of San Javier de Loncomilla is founded in Chile.
1901 (Sunday): in the center of Mexico City, at three in the morning, the police carried out a raid on Calle de la Paz (today Calle Ezequiel Montes) arresting 41 men ―22 dressed as men and 19 as men. woman – and takes them to the Belén prison. One of them, Don Ignacio de la Torre, who was the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz, is released. (The Dance of the 41 Fags).
1903: Panama and the United States sign a treaty for the construction of the Panama Canal.
1909: in Nicaragua, the dictator José Santos Zelaya orders to execute some 500 revolutionaries.
1910: in Puebla (Mexico), thirty policemen under the command of General Miguel Cabrera try to break into the Serdán brothers’ house. Two days later the Mexican Revolution begins.
1918: Latvia declares its independence.
1928: Walt Disney creates the first Mickey Mouse short film.
1928: in Montevideo (Uruguay) the Saint Bois Hospital is inaugurated.
1933: in Venezuela, the American aviator Jimmy Angel flies over the Angel Falls (979 meters), but only a couple of years later (on March 24, 1935) he is accompanied by a photographer, who makes his discovery known to the world.
1945: in Mexico City, Mexico, the 201 Squadron is received with a military parade upon its return from World War II.
1952: UNESCO admits Spain, which will enter on January 30, 1953.
1960: in the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice in The Hague resolves the old border conflict between Nicaragua and Honduras in favor of the latter.
1964: in Rosario (Argentina) Channel 5 is inaugurated
1966: in the United States, the writer Jack Kerouac marries his girlfriend Stella.
1972: in Argentina the famous embrace between former president Juan Domingo Perón and his once staunch political rival Ricardo Balbín takes place.
1976: in Spain, after the end of the Franco dictatorship, the Cortes approve the Law for Political Reform, which will open the way to democracy.
1976: the United Nations General Assembly again urges the governments of Spain and Great Britain to start negotiations on the Gibraltar problem.
1978: in Jonestown (Guyana), more than 900 members of the sect The Temple of the People, led by the Reverend Jim Jones, die in an event that is known as the Jonestown Tragedy.
1982: in Spain the new Cortes Generales are constituted.
1985: in Puebla (Mexico) the Puebla International Airport is inaugurated.
1987: in London (United Kingdom), a fire damages the underground station of King’s Cross-Saint Pancras.
1987: in Washington (United States), Congress holds President Ronald Reagan responsible for the Irangate scandal.
1987: the first version of the Perl programming language is released in the United States.
1990: the astronomer Eric Elst discovers the asteroid (10093) Diesel.
1991: Uzbekistan adopts its current flag.
1993: in Spain, the Citizen Security Law is declared unconstitutional, which causes the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, José Luis Corcuera.
1996: a freight train catches fire in the Channel Tunnel.
1996: Argentine Gabriela Sabatini says goodbye to tennis.
2000: In Panama, at the request of a Cuban warning, the police detain Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and other counterrevolutionaries.
2000: American actor Michael Douglas marries British actress Catherine Zeta Jones (1969-).
2001: In the United States, the professional wrestling couple Brothers of Destruction (formed by Undertaker and Kane) are dissolved.
2004: in Venezuela the Venezuelan Chavista prosecutor Danilo Anderson is assassinated in a terrorist attack with a car bomb.
2004: Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol
2004: in the Maule region (Chile) the Loncomilla bridge collapses, a structure less than 10 years old. The event will cause a political crisis that will culminate in the resignation of the Minister of Public Works, Javier Etcheberry.
2006: in the United States, the American actress Katie Holmes marries the American actor Tom Cruise with rituals of the Scientology sect.
2007: Wikipedia in Spanish publishes its article number 300,000.
2012: the Japanese company Nintendo launches the Wii U console.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

Events and Curiosities in Dorian's Secrets — *Who was Born “A Day as Today”?*

November 18 – A Day as Today

1522: Lamoral Count of Egmont, Flemish general (d. 1568).
1647: Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and writer (d. 1706).
1727: Philibert Commerson, French naturalist (d. 1773).
1742: Félix Máximo López, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1821).
1768: Abate Marchena, Spanish writer and politician (d. 1821).
1779: Antonia Nava de Catalán, Mexican insurgent soldier, heroine of independence (d. 1843).
1786: Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826).
1787: Louis Daguerre, French painter, photographer and physicist (d. 1851).
1804: Alfonso La Mármora, Italian military and politician (d. 1878).
1809: Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spanish criminal psychopath (d. 1863).
1810: Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888).
1822: Eduardo Huelin Reissig, Spanish industrialist (d. 1891).
1828: John Langdon Haydon Down, great British physician and discoverer of Down syndrome (d. 1896).
1832: Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld, Swedish explorer, geographer and geologist (d. 1901).
1836: Máximo Gómez, Dominican military man, figure of the independence of Cuba (d. 1905).
1836: W. S. Gilbert, British librettist and playwright (d. 1911).
1851: Raffaele Garófalo, Italian jurist and criminologist (d. 1934).
1860: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer and president (d. 1941).
1861: Odón de Buen, Spanish naturist (d. 1945).
1871: Robert Hugh Benson, British priest (d. 1914).
1871: Amadeo Vives, Spanish composer (d. 1932).
1874: Clarence Day, American writer (d. 1935).
1876: Walter Allward, Canadian sculptor (d. 1955).
1882: Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American soprano (d. 1963).
1882: Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (d. 1973).
1885: Josef Kentenich, German priest, creator of the invocation of the Virgin of Schönstatt (f. 1968).
1892: D. E. Stevenson, British humorous novelist (d. 1973).
1894: Manuel Aznar, Spanish journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1975).
1897: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, British physicist (d. 1974).
1898: Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989).
1898: Andrés Soler, Mexican actor (d. 1969).
1899: Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor and musician (d. 1985).
1901: George Gallup, American statistical mathematician (d. 1984).
1904: Guido Santórsola, Brazilian musician, composer, conductor and teacher born in Italy and based in Uruguay (f. 1994).
1906: Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949).
1906: George Wald, American biochemist, 1967 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine (d. 1997).
1906: Alec Issigonis, British-Greek engineer (d. 1988).
1907: Compay Segundo, Cuban musician and composer (f. 2003).
1908: Juan Carlos Castagnino, Argentine painter, architect and draftsman (f. 1972).
1908: Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001).
1909: Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976).
1911: Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and screenwriter (d. 2000).
1917: Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957).
1918: Sergio Poblete, Chilean military (d. 2011).
1919: Jocelyn Brando, American actress (f. 2005).
1919: André Mahé, French cyclist (d. 2010).
1920: Laureano López Rodó, Spanish politician (f. 2000).
1922: Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (d. 1967).
1923: Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998).
1926: Estanislao Basora, Spanish soccer player (d. 2012).
1927: Hank Ballard, African-American musician (d. 2003).
1928: Alberto Monreal Luque, Spanish politician (d. 2014).
1932: Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973).
1932: Héctor Ricardo García, Argentine businessman and journalist, founder of Crónica TV and Radio Colonia (f. 2019).
1933: José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez, Spanish engineer (f. 2000).
1934: Vasilis Vasilikós, Greek writer and diplomat.
1935: Rudolf Bahro, politician and German ecosocialist philosopher (f. 1997).
1936: Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and composer (f. 1995).
1939: Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer.
1939: John O’Keefe, Anglo-American neuroscientist.
1940: Qabus bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman between 1970 and 2020 (f. 2020).
1941: David Hemmings, British actor and filmmaker (d. 2003).
1942: Linda Evans, American actress.
1942: Carlos Larraín, Chilean politician.
1942: Mónica Randall, actress and presenter of Spanish television.
1943: Osamu Dezaki, Japanese filmmaker and animator (d. 2011).
1943: Manuel António Pina, Portuguese writer and journalist (d. 2012).
1943: Daniel Rabinovich, Argentine humorist and musician from Les Luthiers (d. 2015).
1945: Mahinda Rajapaksa, former president of Sri Lanka.
1946: Alan Dean Foster, American writer.
1947: José Alonso, Mexican actor.
1947: José Luis Bermejo, Spanish politician.
1948: Andrea Marcovicci, American actress and singer.
1952: Delroy Lindo, British actor.
1953: Alan Moore, British comic book author.
1953: Kevin Nealon, American comedian.
1953: César Miguel Rondón, Venezuelan journalist and writer.
1958: Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine soccer player and coach.
1960: Elizabeth Perkins, American actress.
1960: Kim Wilde, British singer of pop.
1961: Juan Carlos Cremata, Cuban filmmaker.
1962: Kirk Hammett, American guitarist for the band Metallica.
1963: Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986).
1963: Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer.
1966: Jorge Camacho Cordón, Spanish poet.
1968: Gary Sheffield, American baseball player.
1968: Owen Wilson, American actor.
1969: Sam Cassell, American basketball player.
1969: Maximiliano Montenegro, Argentine journalist.
1970: Mike Epps, American actor.
1970: Johan Liiva, Swedish vocalist of the band Arch Enemy.
1970: Lorna Paz, Colombian actress.
1970: Peta Wilson, Australian actress.
1973: Darko Kovačević, Serbian footballer.
1974: Chloë Sevigny, American actress.
1975: Dirk Müller, German motorsport driver.
1975: David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player.
1975: Jason Williams, American basketball player.
1976: Shagrath, Norwegian singer, of the band Dimmu Borgir.
1977: Fabolous, American rapper.
1978: Pablo Petrecca, Argentine politician
1980: Dustin Kensrue, American musician of the band Thrice.
1980: Iván Chérezov, Russian athlete.
1980: Hamza al-Ghamdi, Saudi terrorist who participated in 9/11 (d. 2001).
1981: Christina Vidal, American actress.
1982: Ferdinando Valencia, Mexican actor.
1984: Johnny Christ, American musician of the band Avenged Sevenfold.
1986: Pablo Lyle, Mexican actor.
1987: Daniella Mastricchio, Argentine actress.
1989: Fabio Legarda, Colombian singer, composer and youtuber (f. 2019).
1992: Queralt Casas, Spanish basketball player.
1992: Nathan Kress, American actor, singer and model.
1994: Danka Kovinić, Montenegrin professional tennis player.
1999: Róbert Boženík, Slovak footballer.
2004: Luka Romero, Argentine footballer.
2005: Ana Olvera, Mexican basketball player.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 18 – A Day as Today

1566: Francisco de Mendoza y Bobadilla, Spanish cardinal (b.1508).
1830: Franco Andrea Bonelli, Italian ornithologist (b. 1784).
1830: Adam Weishaupt, German theologian (b. 1748).
1844: José Rondeau, Argentine military man (b. 1775).
1847: Philemon Thomas, American politician (b. 1763).
1868: José Tadeo Monagas, soldier, politician and Venezuelan president on three occasions (b. 1784).
1886 – Chester A. Arthur, American President (b.1829).
1887: Gustav Fechner, German physicist (b.1801).
1896: Pablo Gonzalvo, Spanish painter (b. 1827).
1909: Renée Vivien, British poet (b. 1877).
1910: Aquiles Serdán, Mexican revolutionary politician (b. 1876).
1922: Marcel Proust, French writer (b.1871).
1926: Bartolomé Maura y Montaner, Spanish painter (b. 1844).
1929: Mauritz Stiller, Swedish filmmaker (b.1883).
1941: Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879).
1941: Walther Nernst, German physicist and chemist, 1920 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry (b. 1874).
1944: Enzo Sereni, Italian Zionist writer assassinated by the Nazis (b. 1905).
1952: Paul Eluard, French poet (b.1895).
1953 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (b.1901).
1957: Alberto Álvarez de Cienfuegos Cobos, Spanish writer (b. 1885).
1958: Francisco Pagaza, Spanish footballer (b. 1895).
1962: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (b. 1885).
1969: Joseph Patrick Kennedy, American investor and businessman, father of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1888).
1973: Alois Hába, Czech composer (b.1893).
1974: Hans Moser, Swiss horse trainer and rider, Olympic champion in 1948 (b.1901).
1976: Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890).
1978: Jim Jones, American evangelical pastor, cult leader and assassin (b.1931).
1978: Lennie Tristano, American jazz pianist (b.1919).
1981: Fredric Wertham, German-American psychiatrist (b.1895).
1982: Duk-Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b.1959)
1984: Osvaldo Fresedo, Argentine tango player (b. 1897).
1985: Lon Nol, Cambodian military and president (b.1913).
1986: Rodolfo Barón Castro, Salvadoran historian (b.1909).
1986: Gia Carangi, American model (b.1960).
1987: Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b.1934).
1989: Hendrik de Vries, Dutch painter and writer (b. 1896).
1994: Cab Calloway, American singer (b.1907).
1998: Aniceto Utset, Spanish cyclist (b. 1932).
1999: Paul Bowles, American writer and composer (b.1910).
2002: James Coburn, American actor (b.1928).
2003: Michael Kamen, American composer, arranger, lyricist and pianist (b.1948).
2004: Danilo Anderson, Venezuelan prosecutor (b. 1966).
2005: Alfonso Arana, Puerto Rican painter (b.1927).
2005: Laura Hidalgo, Argentine actress (b.1927).
2005: Harold J. Stone, American actor (b.1911).
2008: Manuel Castro Ruiz, Mexican Archbishop (b.1918).
2010: Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican television presenter, producer, comedian, broadcaster and philanthropist (b. 1940).
2010: Alfonso Canales, Spanish poet and literary critic (b. 1923).
2010: Samuel Kunz, Russian military collaborator of the Nazis (b.1921).
2010: Brian Marsden, British astronomer (b.1937).
2010: Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan politician (b.1926).
2011: Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach (b.1942).
2011: Jorge Rueda, Spanish photographer (b.1943).
2011: Daniel Sada, Mexican writer (b. 1953).
2014: Pepe Eliaschev, Argentine journalist and writer (b.1945).
2015: Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1975).
2015: Calixto Ochoa, Colombian singer and composer (b.1934).
2016: Denton Cooley, American surgeon (b.1920).
2017: Malcolm Young, Australian guitarist, songwriter and record producer (b.1953).
2017: José Manuel Maza, Spanish judge, criminologist and writer (b.1951).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

November 18 – A Day as Today

European Day for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
Bolivia:
- Creation of the National Anthem
- Commemoration of the Battle of Ingavi
- Anniversary of the department of Beni
Venezuela:
- Food Day.
- Zulia: party in honor of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá.
Latvia: Independence Day.
Oman: National Day.
Morocco: Independence Day.