Other Notable Events, November 18

In 2004, Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.

In 2005, suicide bombings killed more than 50 people in Iraq, most of them in or near two Shiite mosques close to the Iranian border.

In 2006, a Connecticut woman who pleaded guilty to sending cookies loaded with rat poison to the U.S. Supreme Court was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In 2007, authorities in Bangladesh upped the death toll from Cyclone Sidr to at least 2,000 people. Many more were reported missing and some 600,000 were homeless from the storm that ruined much of the country's food supply.

Also in 2007, a methane explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine killed at least 88 miners.

In 2008, pirates hijacked a Saudi oil tanker anchored about 480 miles off the coast of Somalia, loaded with about 2 million barrels of oil, worth about $100 million.

In 2009, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., introduced a healthcare package he said could extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans with a price tag of $849 billion over 10 years.

In 2010, Somalia was rated the world's top terror state, surpassing Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia, in a British global study.

Also in 2010, a United Nations report said the bill for global food imports would top $1 trillion for the second time, putting the world dangerously close to a new food crisis.

In 2011, an Idaho man who reportedly called U.S. President Barack Obama the anti-Christ was charged with trying to assassinate him in a shooting incident outside the White House.

Also in 2011, thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators clashed with New York police in a show of strength in the movement's original home that was echoed nationwide.

And, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was revoking its approval of the use of Avastin for women with breast cancer after concluding that safety and effectiveness had not been proven for that use. Avastin remained on the market as treatment for other types of cancer.