November 18
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
1883 - Standard time began as the United States and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, died in New York City at age 56.
1916 - The World War I Battle of the Somme pitting British and French forces against German troops ended inconclusively after 4 1/2 months of bloodshed.
1923 - Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American in space, was born in East Derry, New Hampshire.
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his debut in the film Steamboat Willie.
1936 - Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.
1963 - The Bell System introduced the first commercial touch-tone telephone system in Carnegie and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1969 - Financier and diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 81.
1976 - Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1978 - Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot; included in the deaths was U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-California).
1985 - The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," created by Bill Watterson, was first published. (The strip ran for 10 years.)
1987 - The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
1988 - President Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating a Cabinet-level drug czar and providing the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland, the American dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.
1999 - Twelve people were killed when a bonfire under construction at Texas A&M University collapsed.
1999 - A jury in Jasper, Texas convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., but spared him the death penalty.
2002 - U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year hiatus, calling on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction.
2003 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same-sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.
2004 - The U.N. Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi, the first time the body had convened outside of its New York headquarters.
2004 - Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.
2009 - Two days before turning 92, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia), became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, at 56 years, 320 days. (That record was broken in 2013 by U.S. Rep John Dingell, D-Michigan.)
2010 - President Barack Obama rallied former diplomatic and military chiefs from both parties to pressure reluctant Republican senators into ratifying a nuclear weapons deal with Russia. (The Senate ratified the treaty the following month.)
2010 - General Motors stock resumed trading on Wall Street, signaling the rebirth of an American corporate icon that had collapsed into bankruptcy and was rescued with a $50 billion infusion from taxpayers.
2015 - The Islamic State group announced that it had killed a Norwegian man and a Chinese man after earlier demanding ransoms for the two.
2019 - The Trump administration said it no longer considered Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law; the position marked a reversal of four decades of American policy, and undermined efforts by the Palestinians to gain statehood.
2019 - Beauty company Coty said it was buying a 51 percent share of reality TV star Kylie Jenner’s beauty business in a deal that valued her company at about $1.2 billion.
Birthdays
28 - Nathan Kress (actor)
33 - Jake Abel (actor)
35 - Allyson Felix (track & field athlete)
36 - TJ Osborne (country singer)
36 - Nayantara (actress)
38 - Damon Wayans Jr. (actor)
38 - Mila J (singer)
39 - Christina Vidal (actress)
39 - Allison Tolman (actress)
39 - Mekia Cox (actress)
44 - Steven Pasquale (actor)
44 - Jessi Alexander (country singer)
45 - David Ortiz (baseball player)
46 - Chloe Sevigny (actress)
50 - Peta Wilson (actress)
50 - Megyn Kelly (journalist)
50 - Mike Epps (actor)
52 - Dan Bakkedahl (actor)
52 - Owen Wilson (actor)
58 - TIm Guinee (actor)
60 - Kim Wilde (singer)
60 - Elizabeth Perkins (actress)
62 - Oscar Nunez (actor)
64 - Warren Moon (football player)
67 - Kevin Nealon (actor/comedian)
70 - Graham Parker (singer)
73 - Jameson Parker (actor)
78 - Susan Sullivan (actress)
78 - Linda Evans (actress)
81 - Brenda Vaccaro (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 18
1893 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 18-0.
1899 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 36-20.
1905 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 35-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 29-0.
1916 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 7-3.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-0.
1933 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 14-13.
1943 - Philadelphia Phillies President William Cox was banned from baseball for betting on his team.
1950 - #18 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-13.
1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."
1961 - #8 Colorado defeats Nebraska 7-0.
1966 - Sandy Koufax announced his retirement from baseball.
1967 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-7.
1972 - #5 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 59-7.
1978 - Missouri upsets #2 Nebraska 35-31, Huskers end as co-Big 8 champions (6-1).
1984 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 to win the Grey Cup.
1985 - Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins broke his leg after being hit by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The injury ended Theismann's 12-year NFL career.
1987 - Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs is the first player to win a Most Valuable Player award while playing on a last-place team.
1989 - #6 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 42-25 and finishes as Big 8 runner-up (6-1).
1996 - Chris Boniol of the Dallas Cowboys tied an NFL record when he kicked seven field goals in a game against the Green Bay Packers.
1997 - The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays participated in their initial expansion draft.
2017 - #13 Penn State defeats Nebraska 56-44.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
1883 - Standard time began as the United States and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States, died in New York City at age 56.
1916 - The World War I Battle of the Somme pitting British and French forces against German troops ended inconclusively after 4 1/2 months of bloodshed.
1923 - Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American in space, was born in East Derry, New Hampshire.
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his debut in the film Steamboat Willie.
1936 - Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.
1963 - The Bell System introduced the first commercial touch-tone telephone system in Carnegie and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1969 - Financier and diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 81.
1976 - Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1978 - Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot; included in the deaths was U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-California).
1985 - The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," created by Bill Watterson, was first published. (The strip ran for 10 years.)
1987 - The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
1988 - President Ronald Reagan signed legislation creating a Cabinet-level drug czar and providing the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland, the American dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.
1999 - Twelve people were killed when a bonfire under construction at Texas A&M University collapsed.
1999 - A jury in Jasper, Texas convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., but spared him the death penalty.
2002 - U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year hiatus, calling on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction.
2003 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same-sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.
2004 - The U.N. Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi, the first time the body had convened outside of its New York headquarters.
2004 - Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.
2009 - Two days before turning 92, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia), became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history, at 56 years, 320 days. (That record was broken in 2013 by U.S. Rep John Dingell, D-Michigan.)
2010 - President Barack Obama rallied former diplomatic and military chiefs from both parties to pressure reluctant Republican senators into ratifying a nuclear weapons deal with Russia. (The Senate ratified the treaty the following month.)
2010 - General Motors stock resumed trading on Wall Street, signaling the rebirth of an American corporate icon that had collapsed into bankruptcy and was rescued with a $50 billion infusion from taxpayers.
2015 - The Islamic State group announced that it had killed a Norwegian man and a Chinese man after earlier demanding ransoms for the two.
2019 - The Trump administration said it no longer considered Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law; the position marked a reversal of four decades of American policy, and undermined efforts by the Palestinians to gain statehood.
2019 - Beauty company Coty said it was buying a 51 percent share of reality TV star Kylie Jenner’s beauty business in a deal that valued her company at about $1.2 billion.
Birthdays
28 - Nathan Kress (actor)
33 - Jake Abel (actor)
35 - Allyson Felix (track & field athlete)
36 - TJ Osborne (country singer)
36 - Nayantara (actress)
38 - Damon Wayans Jr. (actor)
38 - Mila J (singer)
39 - Christina Vidal (actress)
39 - Allison Tolman (actress)
39 - Mekia Cox (actress)
44 - Steven Pasquale (actor)
44 - Jessi Alexander (country singer)
45 - David Ortiz (baseball player)
46 - Chloe Sevigny (actress)
50 - Peta Wilson (actress)
50 - Megyn Kelly (journalist)
50 - Mike Epps (actor)
52 - Dan Bakkedahl (actor)
52 - Owen Wilson (actor)
58 - TIm Guinee (actor)
60 - Kim Wilde (singer)
60 - Elizabeth Perkins (actress)
62 - Oscar Nunez (actor)
64 - Warren Moon (football player)
67 - Kevin Nealon (actor/comedian)
70 - Graham Parker (singer)
73 - Jameson Parker (actor)
78 - Susan Sullivan (actress)
78 - Linda Evans (actress)
81 - Brenda Vaccaro (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 18
1893 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 18-0.
1899 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 36-20.
1905 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 35-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 29-0.
1916 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 7-3.
1922 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 21-0.
1933 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 14-13.
1943 - Philadelphia Phillies President William Cox was banned from baseball for betting on his team.
1950 - #18 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 20-13.
1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."
1961 - #8 Colorado defeats Nebraska 7-0.
1966 - Sandy Koufax announced his retirement from baseball.
1967 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-7.
1972 - #5 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 59-7.
1978 - Missouri upsets #2 Nebraska 35-31, Huskers end as co-Big 8 champions (6-1).
1984 - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-17 to win the Grey Cup.
1985 - Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins broke his leg after being hit by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The injury ended Theismann's 12-year NFL career.
1987 - Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs is the first player to win a Most Valuable Player award while playing on a last-place team.
1989 - #6 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 42-25 and finishes as Big 8 runner-up (6-1).
1996 - Chris Boniol of the Dallas Cowboys tied an NFL record when he kicked seven field goals in a game against the Green Bay Packers.
1997 - The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays participated in their initial expansion draft.
2017 - #13 Penn State defeats Nebraska 56-44.
