FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Today is Friday, November 18, the 322nd day of 2011. 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

1805 ― 30 women meet at Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America

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

1928 ― Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in N.Y. 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"

1970 ― Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon