Today is Thursday, November 18, the 322nd day of 2010. There are 43 days left in the year.
1307 ― William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1497 ― Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
1909 ― U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
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"
1970 ― Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1976 ― Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1990 ― Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait