November 18th

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November 18th
Topic Started: Nov 18 2008, 11:40 PM (46 Views)
Admin	Nov 18 2008, 11:40 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 130 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: November 10, 2005	1883 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 at age 56. 1899 Conductor Eugene Ormandy was born in Budapest, Hungary. 1923 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American in space, was born in East Derry, N.H. 1928 The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York. 1936 Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco. 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, Mass., at age 81. 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean landed on the lunar sufrace during the second manned mission to the moon. 1978 More than 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, after Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones urged them to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced grape punch. Jones died of a bullet wound to the head; whether it was self-inflicted is unknown. 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 educator Thomas Sutherland. 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. arms 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 Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry. 2004 Bill Clinton's presidential library opened in Little Rock, Ark. 2004 Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.
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