ON THIS DAY    18 November      Graphics version >>   BBC News >>
Search ON THIS DAY by date   
  Go back one day Go forward one day
Front Page |  Years |  Themes |  Witness
2000: Hollywood meets Wales in 'wedding of year'
The film world celebrates the celebrity wedding of the year as film star Michael Douglas marries Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones.

1987: King's Cross station fire 'kills 27'
Twenty seven people are dead after a fire at King's Cross station in central London.

1991: Church envoy Waite freed in Beirut
Church envoy Terry Waite is freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.

2003: High security as Bush visits UK
The US President, George W Bush, is on a state visit to Britain amid the tightest security London has ever seen.

1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead
The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, are found in Guyana in South America.

1989: Protesters demand reform in Bulgaria
More than 50,000 people take to the streets of Sofia in Bulgaria demanding political reform.

1967: Moves to curb spread of foot-and-mouth
A ban on the movement of farm animals across the whole of England and Wales came into effect at midnight.

Around this Day

15 November
Top Story: 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction

16 November
Top Story: 1983: England fans rampage in Luxembourg

17 November
Top Story: 1997: Egyptian militants kill tourists at Luxor

19 November
Top Story: 1977: Egyptian leader's Israel trip makes history

20 November
Top Story: 1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins

21 November
Top Story: 1974: Birmingham pub blasts kill 19

Search ON THIS DAY by date   
  Go back one day Go forward one day
Front Page |  Years |  Themes |  Witness
^^ Back to top | ©