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18 November| 18 November 1697 | England [births and deaths] | William Hogarth, celebrated English satirical painter and engraver, whose works include the series A Rake's Progress (from 1732), born in London, England (–1764). | | 18 November 1836 | England [births and deaths] | William Schwenk Gilbert, English playwright known for his works produced with Arthur Seymour Sullivan, born in London, England (–1911). | | 18 November 1905 | Denmark [elections] | Prince Charles of Denmark is elected King Haakon VII of Norway following Norway's independence from Sweden. | | 18 November 1918 | Russia [law and government] | Admiral Alexander Kolchak establishes an anti-Bolshevik dictatorial regime at Omsk, Russia. | | 18 November 1922 | [births and deaths] | Marcel Proust, French novelist who wrote A la recherche du temps perdu/Remembrance of Things Past (1913–27), dies in Paris, France (51). | | 18 November 1924 | Germany, France [political events] | The evacuation of the Ruhr area of Germany by French troops is completed (the Ruhr having been occupied in 1923 because of Germany's default in payment of World War I reparations). | | 18 November 1939 | Canada [births and deaths] | Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic, born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. | | 18 November 1978 | USA, Guyana [religion] | The US cult leader Jim Jones leads 913 followers, most of them Americans, and including 276 children, in a mass suicide at the so-called People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. The slaughter is precipitated by the murder of US representative Leo J Ryan and four associates, who had visited Jonestown to investigate charges of religious coercion. | | 18 November 2007 | UK [popular music] | Spirit by English singer Leona Lewis becomes the fastest-selling debut album in British music chart history. |
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