384 Historic Events for November 18
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| 1874 |
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Riccardo Martin, composer
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| 1874 |
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National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
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| 1877 |
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Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth and welfare)
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| 1881 |
Birth |
Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)
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| 1882 |
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Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God)
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| 1882 |
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Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)
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| 1882 |
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Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)
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| 1883 |
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Antonin Dvor k's "Husitska," premieres
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| 1883 |
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Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
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| 1883 |
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Standard time zones forms by railroads in US and Canada
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| 1886 |
Death |
Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
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| 1887 |
Birth |
Dorothy Dix, [Elizabeth Gilmer], journalist (advice to the lovelorn)
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| 1887 |
Death |
Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
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| 1887 |
Death |
Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
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| 1887 |
Death |
Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
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| 1888 |
Birth |
Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)
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| 1889 |
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Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
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| 1889 |
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William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68
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| 1889 |
Birth |
Maria Realino, [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Cura‡ao)
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| 1893 |
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Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
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| 1894 |
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1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault
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| 1894 |
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1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
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| 1895 |
Birth |
Ernst Levy, composer
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| 1897 |
Birth |
Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
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| 1897 |
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Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
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