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The 18t o November is the 322t day o the year (323t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 43 days bidin.

Events

1626: St. Peter's Basilica

1918: Banner o Latvie

1987: The King's Cross fire in Lunnon

326 - The Auld Saunt Peter's Basilica in Roum is consecratit.
1180 - Philip II o Fraunce becomes King.
1421 - The seawaw at Zuiderdijk breaks, floodin 72 villages an killin 10,000 fowk in the Law Kintras.
1493 - Christopher Columbus launds on Puerto Rico.
1494 - Charles VII o Fraunce occupies Florence.
1626 - The new Saunt Peter's Basilica in Roum is consecratit.
1905 - Haakon VII o Norawa becomes king o the newly independent kintra.
1905 - Breetish steamship "Hilda" hits a reef aff Brittany an sinks, killin 125 fowk.
1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o the Somme ends in northren Fraunce.
1918 - Latvie declares its unthirldom frae Roushie.
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses tae accept his prize money for the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
1926 - The Dominions o the Breetish Empire are recognisit as independent states.
1939 - A Dutch ocean steamer runs ower a German minefield naur Harwich, Essex, explodin twice afore sinkin, killin 102 fowk.
1947 - Ballantyne's Depairtment Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 fowk.
1968 - The James Watt Street factory fire in Glesga kills 22 fowk.
1978 - Cult leader Jim Jones an hundreds o followers in the People's Temple commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
1987 - The King's Cross-St. Pancras tube staition fire in Lunnon kills 31 fowk.
2000 - Michael Douglas an Catherine Zeta-Jones marry.
2004 - Roushie ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2009 - French fitbawer Thierry Henry is involved in a handbaw controversy against the Republic o Ireland in the last European match o 2010 FIFA Warld Cup qualification.
2017 - Richard Leonard defeats Anas Sarwar in the contest tae lead the Scots Labour Pairty.
2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa becomes Preses o Sri Lanka.
2019 - Defyin the poseetion o the Unitit Naitions, the Unitit States Govrenment says that it disnae conseeder the biggin o Jewish settlements in the Wast Bank tae be illegal.