November 18, 2002: Naxals kill 30 in India

Thirty killed as Naxals attack bus in India

November 18

1820 - US Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer is the first person to reach Antarctica.

1830 - National Congress in Belgium decrees independence.

1903 - US and Panama sign treaty granting the US rights to build the Panama Canal.

1905 - Prince Charles of Denmark is elected the first king of Norway after independence is restored.

1928 - Mickey Mouse makes his debut in the US in the first successful sound-synchronised cartoon, Steamboat Willie.

1941 - British troops launch attack in the West African desert during the Second World War.

1970 - West Germany and Poland agree to restore relations, ending 31 years of enmity.

1976 - Spain’s parliament approves a bill to establish democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1977 - Egyptian embassy in Athens is stormed by Palestinian students.

1978 - A total of 912 people die in Jonestown, Guyana, after Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones convinces most followers to commit mass suicide by drinking a cyanide-laced punch.

1982 - A new exhibition hall is officially inaugurated at the Dubai International Trade Centre.

1987 - A wooden escalator catches fire and pours flames and smoke into London’s busiest subway station, killing at least 30 people.

1996 - Italian boxer Fabrizio De Chiara dies from ring injuries.

2005 - Two suicide bombings kill more than 77 people at Shiite mosques during Friday prayers in a north-eastern Iraq town.

2007 - A methane blast rips through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 70 miners.

2011 - An Italian prototype plane crashes off Dubai’s coast on its way home after taking part in the Dubai Airshow.

2012 - A massive fire rips though 34-storey Tamweel Tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, leaving hundreds homeless.

2013 - At least 26 people are killed when a train ploughs into a truck and a mini-bus at a railway crossing in Dahshour, Egypt.

2014 - Sharjah opens plot sales to expatriates with valid UAE residence visas for the first time.

2015 - Dr Amal Al Qubaisi becomes first woman speaker of UAE Federal National Council.