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Teddy Bear / Peoples Temple / One Direction

On This Day (July 7): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
November 18, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Tuesday, November 18. Today we’re exploring the first printed book, St. Peter's Basilica, the birth of the teddy bear, Battle of the Somme, One Direction's first album, and much more—quick and thrilling.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1421

The North Sea coast was flooded by a massive storm, resulting in up to 10,000 deaths within a day.

-1477

"Dictes & Sayengis of the Philosophers," the first dated printed book in England, was printed by William Caxton.

-1626

St. Peter's Basilica in Rome became the largest Christian church in the world, built to replace an earlier basilica on the same site.

-1883

Exactly at noon on this date, American and Canadian railroads began using four continental time zones instead of thousands of local times.

-1902

Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michtom named his stuffed teddy bear after US President "Teddy" Roosevelt.

-1916

British General Douglas Haig ended the First Battle of the Somme in World War I after over 1 million soldiers were killed or wounded.

-1928

Walt Disney released Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.

-1978

918 members of the Peoples Temple died under cult leader Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana.

-1993

South Africa's black and white leaders approve a new democratic constitution.

-2011

"X Factor" group One Direction released their first album, "Up All Night," in Ireland and the UK.

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