In History – Carrie wins big at American Music Awards
TODAY IN HISTORY - 11/18:
1865 - Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1872 - Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1963 - Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
2007 - 34th American Music Award: Fergie, Justin Timberlake & Carrie Underwood win
HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:
1968 - Owen Wilson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
2000 - Actress Catherine Zeta Jones (31) weds actor/producer Michael Douglas (56) at the Plaza Hotel in New York City
2006 - American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy
GOODBYE TO:
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)
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