📜 This Day in History
November 18
1210Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.- 1865"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain.
- 1977Solomon Islands ratified the adoption of a new flag.
- 1991The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
- 2003With its ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage.
- 2017Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.
