November 18th, 2008

Today in History

1997:
Gary Glitter is arrested in the United Kingdom on child porn charges.

1493:
Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico. He will land on it the following day and name it San Juan Batista.

1926:
George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

1918:
Latvia declares its independence from Russia.

1095:
The Council of Clermont began. The council was called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land.