TODAY IN HISTORY – 18th Nov, 2025 – Africa World News
By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. The idea here is that when historical events or trends recur, their impact or value increases over time.
Again, it equally means that the demand or significance of certain occurrences or assets grows as they repeat.
Below are some historical events you have probably not come across before
On this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus first sighted the island now known as Puerto Rico.
According to Today in History, it was on this day in 1928 that they released the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.
Sadly on this day in 1949, the Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
Again, on this day in 1963, the first push-button telephone went into service.
Regrettably, it was on this day in 1978 that in Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
Still on this day in 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon released Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
In 1993 on this day and in South Africa, 21 political parties approved a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
Independence Day (Morocco), celebrates the independence of Morocco from France and Spain in 1956.
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