On This Day November 18th

 OTD

November 18th is the three hundredth twenty-second day of the year, and there are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

326 – Pope Sylvester, I consecrated the old St. Peter's Basilica

401 – The Visigoths, led by King Alaric I, crossed the Alps and invaded northern Italy.

1493 – Christopher Columbus first sighted the island which is now known as Puerto Rico.

1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.

1803—The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought. It leads to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.

1910—In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes marched to the British Parliament in London. Police beat several, newspaper attention embarrassed the authorities, and the march was dubbed Black Friday.

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.

2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

 

 Birthdays

 1571 – Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654)

1736 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1800)

1787 – Louis Daguerre, French artist, photographer, and inventor (d. 1851)

1882 – Jacques Maritain, French philosopher and author (d. 1973)

1901 – George Gallup, American statistician (d. 1984)

1909 – Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter and producer, co-founded Capitol Records (d. 1976)

1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)

1950 – Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-American rock bass player

1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor

1980 – Denny Hamlin, American race car driver.

 

Holiday Highlight

 Mickey Mouse Day

Mickey Mouse is an iconic figure for the Disney brand, but he almost didn't exist. He was created as a replacement for Oswald the Rabbit, which Disney originally produced for Charles Mintz at Universal Studios. When Disney requested a budget increase due to Oswald's success, Mintz instead proposed a 20 percent pay cut and reminded Disney that Oswald was owned by Universal. Disney refused the new contract, completing his final Oswald comic, and ending his partnership with Universal.

Starting fresh with only two animators, Ub Iwerks and Les Clark, Disney learned the importance of owning the rights to his characters. Inspired by a tamed mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-Gram Studio, he originally named the new character Mortimer Mouse, but his wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.

Mickey made his debut in the short “Plane Crazy” on May 14, 1928, but it did not attract distributors. A second short, “The Gallopin’ Gaucho,” also struggled for distribution. Finally, “Steamboat Willie,” released on November 18, 1928, was a success and marked Mickey's official introduction, co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

 

Holidays And Observance

European Antibiotic Awareness Day

Married to a Scorpio Support Day

Mickey Mouse Day

National Apple Cider Day

National Princess Day

National Vichyssoise Day

Occult Day

Push-button Phone Day

William Tell Day 

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