Today in History

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Births on 18 November

1974 – Chloë Sevigny
American actress, fashion designer

1953 – Alan Moore
English author, illustrator

1939 – Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, author, critic

1933 – Bruce Conner
American painter, photographer, and director

1923 – Ted Stevens
American politician

Deaths on 18 November

1987 – Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist

1978 – Jim Jones
American cult leader, founded the Peoples Temple

1962 – Niels Bohr
Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 – Marcel Proust
French writer

 

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November 18th

1477 Caxton’s book, the Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, was published. It was the first printed book in England bearing a date.




1852 The state funeral of the Duke of Wellington took place at St Paul’s Cathedral. It was one of the biggest ever held in London. Known as the Iron Duke, he was Tory Prime Minister from 1828-30. His hereditary title was derived from the Somerset town of Wellington and was created for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington. The Wellington Monument is located on the highest point of the Blackdown Hills, 1.9 miles from the town of Wellington.







1910 More than 100 were arrested by police when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons at Westminster, London.





1995 - On this day in history, The Rolling Stones became the first band to broadcast a concert on the Internet