(x) Legendary hero William Tell shoots an apple of his son Walter's head in Altdorf, Switzerland.
229 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1784
(-) Murderer Alexander White is executed by hanging in Long Island, New York, United States.
188 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 November 1825
(-) Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging in New York, New York, United States.
135 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 November 1878
(-) Multiple Murderer Garcia is executed by hanging in Usk Prison, Wales, United Kingdom.
127 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1886
(-) 21st president of the USA Chester Alan Arthur dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in NewYork, New York, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 November 1922
(-) Writer Marcel Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust dies of pneumonia at the age of 51 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 November 1922
(+) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle is born in Nicaragua.
87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1926
(-) Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 56 in San Francisco, California, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 November 1940
(x) Bomb attack by 37-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York, New York, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 November 1945
(+) First female Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Pearl Mankiller is born in Tahlequah, Rocky Mount, Oklahoma, United States.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 November 1952
(-) Writer Paul Eluard dies at the age of 55 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 November 1952
(+) Murderer Ernest West Basden is born in North Carolina, United States.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 November 1959
(+) Multiple Murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess, is born in Houston, Texas, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 November 1962
(-) Physicist Niels Hendrik David Bohr dies at the age of 77 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 November 1966
(-) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot dies at the age of 70 in France.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 November 1974
(-) Spree Killer Paul John Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, is shot dead by FBI-agent Ron Angel after making a grab for the Sheriff’s gun on transport to a maximum security jail at the age of 28 in Georgia, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1976
(-) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, dies at the age of 86 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 November 1977
(-) Tommy Boling is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.
(-) Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 47 in Jonestown, Guyana.
Earlier that day he ordered his cult-members to drink cyanide-laced juice, killing all 928 present.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 November 1978
(-) Mike Inderbieten is emasculated and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in San Diego, California, United States.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 November 1981
(-) Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham dies at the age of 86 in Lynn Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 November 1997
(-) Yu Besun is shot dead in the course of a robbery by Louis Peoples at the age of 56 in Stockton, Village Oaks Market, California, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1999
(-) Murderer Jose Guttierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 November 1999
(-) Writer Paul Frederic Bowles dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Tangier, Italian Hospital, Morocco.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 November 2002
(-) Actor James Harrison Coburn dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
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