Friday 18th of November 1307

Folk hero Wilhelm Tell shoots an apple of his son Walter's head in a single attempt in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland.

Monday 18th of November 1720

Pirate captain John Rackham aka Calico Jack is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Port Royal, Surrey, Jamaica.

Calico Jack's body was then gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal.

Thursday 18th of November 1784

Murderer Alexander White is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Friday 18th of November 1825

Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in New York City, New York, United States.

Reynolds' was one of the last public hangings in New York City.

Monday 18th of November 1878

Mass murderer Joseph Garcia is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 21 in Usk Prison, Usk, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

Garcia stabbed 40-year-old William Watkins and his 44-year-old wife Elizabeth to death and hacked 8-year-old Charlotte, 5-year-old Frederick and 4-year-old Alice to death with an axe as they lay asleep.

Thursday 18th of November 1886

21st President of the United States Chester Alan Arthur dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Saturday 18th of November 1922

Writer Marcel Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust dies of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 51 in 44 Rue de l'Amiral-Hamelin, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 18th of November 1922

Dictator of Nicaragua Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle is born in León, León Department, Nicaragua.

Thursday 18th of November 1926

56-year-old Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Francisco, California, United States.

Sunday 18th of November 1945

First female chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Pearl Mankiller is born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States.

The family surname Mankiller refers to a traditional Cherokee military rank, it is Asgaya-dihi in the Cherokee language.

Tuesday 18th of November 1952

Surrealist poet Paul Éluard dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in 52 Avenue de Gravelle, Charenton-Le-Pont, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 18th of November 1952

Murderer Ernest West Basden is born in Kinston, North Carolina, United States.

Monday 18th of November 1957

Triple murderer Juan Raul Garza is born in Brownsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 18th of November 1959

Double murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

Sunday 18th of November 1962

Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Copenhagen, Carlsberg, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

Thursday 18th of November 1976

Artist Man Ray dies of a lung infection at the age of 86 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 18th of November 1977

21-year-old Tommy Boling is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

Saturday 18th of November 1978

22-year-old Michael Joseph Inderbieten is castrated, tortured and suffocated by serial killer Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in San Diego, California, United States.

Saturday 18th of November 1978

Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana.

That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."

Wednesday 18th of November 1981

Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Kempton, Pennsylvania, United States.

Tuesday 18th of November 1997

56-year-old Besun Yu and 46-year-old Jun Gao are shot dead by 35-year-old Serial killer Louis James Peoples in the course of a robbery in Village Oaks Market, Stockton, California, United States.

Thursday 18th of November 1999

Composer and writer Paul Frederic Bowles dies of heart failure at the age of 89 in The Italian Hospital, Tangier, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco.

Thursday 18th of November 1999

Murderer Jose Angel Guttierrez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Monday 18th of November 2002

Actor James Harrison Coburn dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Friday 18th of November 2005

Happy visitors including Cathérine Hug posing with a frozen tattooed pig skin at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, Shunyi, China.