This is the official photo of Nelson Mandela casting his vote in the 1994 elections. It was the first time Mandela had voted in his life. It was taken at Ohlange School, Inanda, Durban by the IEC's official photographer, Paul Weinberg. It is one of only two images of this event. (Photo: Paul Weinberg [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 18
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1905 - Prince Charles of Denmark was elected first king of Norway after the restoration of its independence. He took the old Norse name of Haakon VII.
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse made his first appearance at the Colony Theatre in New York in a film called "Steamboat Willie.”
1935 - The League of Nations' economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) took effect.
1978 - Jim Jones, an American pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana by taking cyanide-laced drinks. Cult members who refused were shot.
1993 - Black and white leaders in South Africa approved a new democratic constitution which gave blacks the vote.
2002 - James Coburn, American film actor, died. Among his most notable films were the spy spoof "Our Man Flint" and his 1960 breakthrough "The Magnificent Seven."
2003 - The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts ruled the state could not deny homosexuals the right to marry, making Massachusetts the first U.S. state to recognise gay marriage.
2004 - Russia formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, clearing the way for the environment pact to come into force in February 2005.
2005 - At least 74 people were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up inside two Shi'ite mosques in the eastern Iraqi town of Khanaqin.
2005 - Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaore stormed to a third consecutive term with a landslide victory in presidential polls.
2007 - A methane explosion rips through a colliery in Ukraine's Donbass coalfield, killing 100 miners in underground shafts engulfed by fire and smoke.
