TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, November 15, 2018

On this day in history:

1769 - James Cook takes formal possession of New Zealand.

1791 - Australia’s first successful grape vine is planted.

1838 - The perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre in New South Wales are acquitted.

1889 - Brazil’s monarchy was overthrown.

1902 - Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium.

1920 - The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.

1985 - Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.

1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers.

2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.

2006 - Andy Warhol’s painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction Orange Marilyn sold for $16.2 million and Sixteen Jackies sold for $15.6 million. Birthdays

William Pitt the Elder 1708 Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham Gerhart Hauptmann 1862 Georgia O’Keeffe 1887 Joseph Wapner 1919

Ed Asner 1929 Whitman Mayo 1930 Petula Clark 1932

Clyde McPhatter 1932 Singer (Drifters)

Jack Burns 1933 Joanna Barnes 1934

Sam Waterston 1940 Daniel Barenboim 1942 Israeli pianist and conductor Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945 Mitch Easter 1954 Beverly D’Angelo 1954 Kevin Eubanks 1957 E-40 1967

ODB (Wu Tang Clan) 1968 Jack Ingram 1970

Chad Robert Kroeger 1974 Singer/Guitarist (Nickelback)

Shailene Diann Woodley 1991 - Actress