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