On this day 18th November

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Facts

1477 First English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton

1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing earlier basilica, world's largest Christian basilica

1916 General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) - over 1 million killed or wounded

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

1993 Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution

Deaths

1154 Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)

1886 Chester A. Arthur, 21st US president (1881-85), dies at 56

1941 Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)

1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77

1969 Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81

1978 Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide at 47

2002 James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)

2015 Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player and the youngest ever All Black, dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40

2015 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86

Born on this day

1968 Owen Wilson, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander), born in Dallas, Texas

1975 Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter

James Coburn

Jim Slater