| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1307 | William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head. | Ritchie Valens | Ooh! My Head | La Bamba |
2. | 1686 | Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants. | Wire | Practice Makes Perfect | Chairs Missing |
3. | 1865 | Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. | Belle & Sebastian | Funny Little Frog | The Life Pursuit |
4. | 1926 | George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." | Uniform Choice | No Thanks | Straight and Alert |
5. | 1987 | King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras. | Pet Shop Boys | King's Cross | Actually |
6. | 2003 | In a 50-page, 4–3 decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that the state may not "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry." | The Wrens | Hats Off to Marriage, Baby | Secaucus |
(Historical facts about November 18 are from Wikipedia.)
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