NOVEMBER 18
1978:More than 900 members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple die after drinking cyanide-laced punch in Guyana in South America. Jones dies of a gunshot wound to the head.
1976: Spain’s parliament passes legislation allowing for general elections, ushering in democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1991: Hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland are released in Lebanon. Sutherland was seized by Islamic Jihad in 1985; Waite in 1987.
2002: U.N. inspectors enter Iraq for the first time in four years in search of weapons of mass destruction.
1976: Spain’s parliament passes legislation allowing for general elections, ushering in democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1991: Hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland are released in Lebanon. Sutherland was seized by Islamic Jihad in 1985; Waite in 1987.
2002: U.N. inspectors enter Iraq for the first time in four years in search of weapons of mass destruction.
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