Today in History - History - November 18th

1941Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia

1835-20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti

1865Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

1970Johnny Bench wins NL MVP

1978In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

1928Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie"

1872Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting

1985Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"

201239th American Music Award: Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win

1936Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco

1787Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], Swartekill, New York, US abolitionist/feminist

1968Owen Wilson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander)

1939Margaret Atwood, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian author/poet

1906George Wald, US, physiologist/biologist (eye, Nobel 1967)

1909Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic)

1836William Schwenck Gilbert, London, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan)

1901George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll)

1787Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851)

2000Actress Catherine Zeta Jones (31) weds actor/producer Michael Douglas (56) at the Plaza Hotel in New York City

1966MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (55) weds actress Mary Jo Tarola

2006American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy

1948KFC founder Colonel Sanders (58) weds his long-time employee Claudia Price

2010Cricketer Glenn McGrath (40) weds interior designer Sara Leonardi in Cronulla, New South Wales

1962Singer Barry White (18) weds childhood sweetheart Betty Smith

1886Chester A. Arthur, 21st US president (1881-85), dies at 56

1978Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide at 47

1969Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81

1962Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77