{"id":23226,"date":"2023-11-18T04:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23226"},"modified":"2023-11-07T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T10:40:34","slug":"history-of-18-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-18-november\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 18 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives joined the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and patients.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; American Airlines flight attendants went on strike. They ended their strike only 4 days later.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved a new constitution.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial Corp. for $16.1 billion. To date it was the largest banking deal in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0history.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Nintendo released the GameCube home video game console in the United States.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2002\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iraq disarmament crisis:\u00a0United Nations\u00a0weapons inspectors led by\u00a0Hans Blix\u00a0arrive in\u00a0Iraq.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court\u00a0rules 4\u20133 in\u00a0<em>Goodridge v. Department of Public Health<\/em>\u00a0that the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180\u00a0days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.<\/li>\r\n<li>2012\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria\u00a0becomes the\u00a0118th\u00a0Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013\u00a0NASA\u00a0launches the\u00a0MAVEN\u00a0probe to\u00a0Mars.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2002\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iraq disarmament crisis:\u00a0United Nations\u00a0weapons inspectors led by\u00a0Hans Blix\u00a0arrive in\u00a0Iraq.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court\u00a0rules 4\u20133 in\u00a0<em>Goodridge v. Department of Public Health<\/em>\u00a0that the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180\u00a0days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.<\/li>\r\n<li>2012\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria\u00a0becomes the\u00a0118th\u00a0Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013\u00a0NASA\u00a0launches the\u00a0MAVEN\u00a0probe to\u00a0Mars.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dianne dela Fuente, Filipino singer and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Nasim Pedrad, Iranian-American actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Vittoria Puccini, Italian actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Maggie Stiefvater, American author<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Allison Tolman, American actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Christina Vidal, American actress and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Greg Estandia, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Travis Buck, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Michael Dawson, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Jon Lech Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer and engineer, created\u00a0DeCSS<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer and dancer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Enar J\u00e4\u00e4ger, Estonian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Allyson Felix, American sprinter<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Christian Siriano, American fashion designer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yoon Park, South Korean actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jeffrey Jordan, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Michael Roach, American soccer player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Marie-Jos\u00e9e Ta Lou, Ivorian sprinter<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_18#cite_note-9\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lu Jiajing, Chinese tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Natalie Osman, American wrestler<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Myk Perez, Filipino singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ahmed Kelly, Iraqi-Australian swimmer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nathan Kress, American actor and director<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Steven Skrzybski, German footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Zhang Zetian, Chinese businesswoman and investor<\/li>\r\n<li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Danka Kovini\u0107, Montenegrin professional tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Bernhard Luxbacher, Austrian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Akiyuki Hashimoto, Japanese sprinter<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_18#cite_note-12\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1993 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives joined the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and patients. 1993 &#8211; American Airlines flight attendants went on strike. They ended their strike only 4 days later. 1993 &#8211; Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved a new constitution. 1997 &#8211; First Union Corp. announced its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1402,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-18-november","10":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-62C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24041,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23226\/revisions\/24041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}