Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 18

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• Haakon VII of Norway
  Haakon VII of Norway
• Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse
  Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse
• Ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
  Ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
• Marie Selika Williams
  Marie Selika Williams
• Congressman Leo Ryan
  Congressman Leo Ryan
• Steamboat Willie poster
  Steamboat Willie poster
• Flag of Solomon Islands
  Flag of Solomon Islands

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Latvia (1918);	lots of CN tags (34), refimprove section
Dedication of Saints Peter and Paul	Stub and date not cited in article.
National Day in Oman (1940)	unreferenced sections
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".	refimprove section
1307 – William Tell, a legendary marksman in Switzerland, was said to have successfully shot an apple on his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow.	refimprove section
1626 – St. Peter's Basilica, one of four major basilicas of Rome, was consecrated on the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326.	already featured on April 18
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Marshal Michel Ney's leadership in the Battle of Krasnoi earned him the nickname "the bravest of the brave" despite the overwhelming French defeat.	refimprove section
1878 – Soprano Marie Selika Williams became the first African-American artist to perform at the White House.	Uncertain date
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark became [[Haakon VII of Norway|Template:Nowrap]], the first King of Norway after the personal union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved.	refimprove
1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.	refimprove section
1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin.	refimprove section
1963 – The first push-button telephone was made available to Bell System customers.	15+ {cn} tags
1985 – Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson that was at its height one of the most popular in the world, was first published.	"Additional citations needed" orange banner
2007 – In Ukraine's worst mining accident, more than 100 workers were killed in a methane explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine.	tagged with {out of date}
2012 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria took office as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.	missing info
Conn Smythe |d|1980|	Deathday not cited

Eligible

• 1583 – The [[Siege of Godesberg|Siege of Template:Shy]], the first major siege of the Cologne War, began.
• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captured three ships carrying recruits for the armies of the East India Company.
• 1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, a phrase in an address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was translated into English as "We will bury you", prompting Western envoys to leave the room.
• 1977 – Solomon Islands ratified the adoption of a new flag (pictured).
• 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 – The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
• 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
• 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
• 2003 – With its ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage.
• 2014 – Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.
• 2017 – Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.

• Born/died this day: | Itzam Kʼan Ahk II |b|701| Philibert Commerson |b|1727| Thomas Burgess |b|1756| Wilhelmine of Prussia |b|1774| Rose Philippine Duchesne |d|1852| Dorothy Dix |b|1861| Clarence Day |b|1874| Mitsuyo Maeda|b|1878| Haguroyama Masaji |b|1914| Lise Østergaard |b|1924| Margaret Atwood |b|1939| Peter Schmeichel |b|1963| Chloë Sevigny |b|1974| Maribel Domínguez |b|1978| Tara Singh Hayer |d|1998|

Notes

• Fantasia (1940 film) appears on November 13, so Steamboat Willie should not appear in the same year

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• 1210 – [[Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap]], Holy Roman Emperor, was [[Excommunication|exTemplate:ShycomTemplate:ShymuTemplate:ShyniTemplate:Shycated]] by [[Pope Innocent III|Pope Template:Nowrap]] after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
• 1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain.
• 1872 – American suffragist Susan B. Anthony (pictured) was arrested and later fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
• 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at [[King's Cross St Pancras tube station|King's Cross Template:Nowrap tube station]] in London.
• 2011 – The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.