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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 18
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Clarence Shepard Day in New York City, New York, USA; writer (Life with Father).
- 150th: 1874 - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 70th: 1954 - New York Yankees trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada and Smith to Baltimore Orioles for Turley, Larsen and Hunter as part of an 18-player deal.
- 60th: 1964 - J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar".
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and editor-in-chief Bride & Home (born 1907).
- 40th: 1984 - New Jersey Devils shutout New York Rangers 6-0.
- 40th: 1984 - Philadelphia Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against New York Islanders.
- 25th: 1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 28 injured at Texas A&M University when the annual Aggie Bonfire collapses while under construction.
- 20th: 2004 - A cargo ship explodes and breaks in half at the port of Paranagua in southern Brazil, spreading a slick of fuel oil, diesel fuel and methanol.
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