Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 18

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 * 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was ex-com-mu-ni-cated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
 * 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Bay of Bengal, a French frigate squadron captured three East Indiamen mainly carrying recruits for the Indian Army.
 * 1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain (pictured).
 * 1872 – American suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
 * 1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys, prompting them to leave the room.
 * 1985 – Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson that was at its height one of the most popular in the world, was first published.
 * 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
 * 1991 – The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
 * 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
 * 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed, killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
 * 2014 – Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.
 * Born/died this day: | Itzam Kʼan Ahk II |b|701| Thomas of Bayeux |d|1100| Thomas Burgess |b|1756| Asa Gray |b|1810| Adam Weishaupt |d|1830| Rose Philippine Duchesne |d|1852| Dorothy Dix |b|1861|  Margaret Atwood |b|1939 | Chloë Sevigny |b|1974| Conn Smythe |d|1980 | Tara Singh Hayer |d|1998