Historical Events for 18th November 2022

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1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
1942 - Thornton Wilder's "Skin of our Teeth" premieres in NYC
1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase "we will bury you!" to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow
1984 - "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1993 - WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
2007 - 35th American Music Awards: Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Carrie Underwood win
2013 - 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2020 - US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
2021 - Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds

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