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November 18

1992
Superman is killed by Doomsday in today's issue of the comic book.

1992
Spike Lee's Malcolm X is released. Did you skip school to go see it?

1978
Jonestown Massacre: More than 900 followers of Rev. Jim Jones commit suicide, in Guyana, at the request of their leader. Just hours before, Jones had ordered the killing of Rep. Leo Ryan of California, three journalists, and a temple defector. Ryan was there to investigate reports of abuse within the cult.

1966
Last Friday, except during lent, that U.S. Roman Catholics were required to abstain from eating meat.

1949
First black to win a major-league MVP award: Jackie Robinson of the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers. (Source: Famous First Facts)

1903
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty: It allowed the U.S. to dig and maintain exclusive rights to the Panama Canal.

1894
First Sunday comics in a U.S. newspaper: Cartoons by Richard Felton Outcault appear in The New York World.

1883
U.S. and Canada are divided into standard time zones: This was replaced the following year by a World wide system having the prime meridian passing through British Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.

1947
Jameson Parker, American actor. TV: Somerset (Dale Robinson) One Life to Live (the first Brad Vernon), and Simon & Simon (A.J. Simon).

1944
Susan Sullivan, American actress. TV: Falcon Crest (Maggie Gioberti).

1942
Linda Evans, American actress. TV: The Big Valley (Audra Barkley) and Dynasty (Krystle Carrington).

1939
Brenda Vaccaro, American Emmy-winning actress. Film: Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975).

1926     d. 1994
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler), Canadian-born actress. TV: Your Hit Parade (the Lucky Strikes Lady) and Candid Camera (practical joker).

1908     d. 2001
Imogene Coca (Imogene Fernandez de Coca), American actress, comedienne.

1901     d. 1984
George Horace Gallup, American pollster, inventor of the Gallup Poll (1935), which legitimized the use of polls to predict elections.

1860     d. 1941
Ignacy Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, statesman. He was the first prime minister (1919-20) of the newly independent Poland, although he resigned after ten months to resume his concert career.

1789     d. 1851
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French photographer, inventor of the Daguerreotype photographic process (1839).

2002     b. 1928
James Coburn, American actor. Film: The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Our Man Flint (1966).

1969     b. 1902
Ted Heath, British band leader, one of the U.K.'s most famous bandleaders.

1965     b. 1888
Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd U.S. Vice-President (1941-45).

1962     b. 1885
Niels Bohr, Danish Nobel-winning physicist, "The father of atomic energy," developed the quantum theory of atomic structure (1913).

1946     b. 1881
Jimmy Walker, American politician, New York Mayor (1925-32), nicknamed Beau James. He hosted the first regularly scheduled TV program (1931). He resigned as mayor after corruption in his administration was exposed.

1886     b. 1829
Chester Alan Arthur, 21st U.S. President (1881-85) and 20th U.S. Vice-President (1881).

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