TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Today is Tuesday, November 18, the 323rd day of 2008. There are 43 days left in the year.

1307 _ William Tell shoots apple off his son's head

1421 _ Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands

1497 _ Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope

1820 _ U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovers Antarctica

1894 _ First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (N.Y. World)

1912 _ Albania declares independence from Turkey

1928 _ Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in ``Steamboat Willie"

1936 _ Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco

1964 _ J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as ``most notorious liar"

1976 _ Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship