Ninian Park grandstand

Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. They entered the Southern Football League in 1910 and joined the English Football League (EFL) in 1920. Since then, the club has spent 17 seasons in the top tier of English football, including nine seasons in the 1920s and the 2018–19 Premier League season. In 1927 they became the only team from outside England to have won the FA Cup. They reached the FA Cup Final in 1925 and 2008, and the EFL Cup Final in 2012. They have won the Welsh Cup 22 times, making them the second-best performers in the competition's history behind Wrexham. Ninian Park (grandstand pictured) was their home ground for 99 years, until they moved into the Cardiff City Stadium in 2009. They have long-standing rivalries with two nearby clubs, the South Wales derby with Swansea City and the Severnside derby with Bristol City. The club's top goalscorer is Len Davies with 179 goals. (Full article...)

Page from Bach's Credo,
revised by C. P. E. Bach

• ... that musicologist Uwe Wolf conducted X-ray research to distinguish J. S. Bach's handwriting in the score of his Mass in B minor from changes made by his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel (revised page pictured)?
• ... that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio station WBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
• ... that the diaries of James Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of the Metropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
• ... that Calvert Vaux Park, named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of the Verrazzano Bridge?
• ... that Xie Gaohua established the Yiwu Market, which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?
• ... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India?
• ... that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita?
• ... that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?

Cyclone Bulbul

• Cyclone Bulbul (satellite image shown) hits the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts of the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 24 people.
• After weeks of protests over electoral fraud, Bolivian president Evo Morales and other high-ranking politicians are forced to resign, and opposition senator Jeanine Áñez becomes interim president.
• The Supreme Court of India delivers a unanimous verdict in favour of the construction of a Hindu temple at a disputed holy site in Ayodhya.
• A border corridor is opened between Pakistan and India, allowing Indian Sikh pilgrims visa-free access to Kartarpur Sahib for the first time since the partition.

November 18

Aftermath of the Aggie Bonfire collapse

• 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
• 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at St Pancras tube station in London.
• 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
• 2017 – Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.

Philibert Commerson (b. 1727) · Rose Philippine Duchesne (d. 1852) · Wilma Mankiller (b. 1945)