November 18th, 2008

Today in History

1990:
Chris Eubank defeats Nigel Benn in arguably the greatest British boxing match ever.

1938:
Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

1909:
Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya.

1865:
Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

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