18 November. Today in History.

1894
The New York World published the first regular Sunday comic section.

1899
Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Open Door policy towards China



1912
Muhammadiyah didirikan di Kampung Kauman, Yogyakarta oleh K.H. Ahmad Dahlan.



1923
Born: Alan Shepard Jr.
astronaut: first American in space



1928
Walt Disney debuted his talking, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theatre in New York. The short film featured a character who had been named Mortimer. Walt changed the name to Mickey Mouse.

Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound. And, for those of you who don’t remember, Steamboat Willie was in black and white. Disney’s first color cartoon wasn’t released for another four years.



1946
Born: Kim Wilde
Rock singer



1962
Born: Kirk Hammett
musician: guitar: group: Metallica



1968
Born: Owen Wilson
Actor



1969
Born: Duncan Sheik
Rock singer



1970
Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling declared that large doses ofVitamin C could ward off the common cold.



1974
Born: Chloe Sevigny
Actress



1975
John Denver received a gold record for I’m Sorry.



1976
Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.



1977
President Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian leader to visit Israel and to address the Knesset (parliament).



1978
More than 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, after Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones urged them to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced grape punch. Jones died of a bullet wound to the head; whether it was self-inflicted is unknown.



1989
Top Chart:
When I See You Smile - Bad English



Blame It on the Rain - Milli Vanilli



1997
Two Willem de Kooning paintings topped the lots at Christie’s blue-chip contemporary sale in New York City. Two Standing Women (1949), sold for $4,182,500 and Woman (Blue Eyes) (1953), which went for about $2 million.



2006
29 years.
-Indahkan dunia dengan deretan angka itu- *kutipan sebuah pesan singkat
:)