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November 18, 1928

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Headlines from November 18, 1928

AUTO REGISTRATION OPENS TOMORROW; Announcement Made of Offices at Which City Residents May Obtain 1929 Plates. ORANGE AND BLACK COLORS J.R. Crossley Issues Warning to Motorists Not to Delay Till the Final Week. AUTO REGISTRATION OPENS TOMORROW

By Unknown Author

Registration of motor vehicles for 1929 will be begun tomorrow by automobile clubs of New York City and other distributing agencies of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. All automobiles owned by residents of New York State must be registered by Jan. 1, the law requires, if they are to be used.

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LOYAL DEMOCRACY FOR PHILADELPHIA; Smith Leader There, With Associates, Sets Up Rival to theRegular Organiaztion.BORN OF RECENT ELECTIONProjectors, Encouraged by 400 PerCent. Democratic Gain, Expect toMake Club State Party Pivot. Factional Row Expected. Look for a Reorganization. LOYAL DEMOCRACY FOR PHILADELPHIA O'Donnell Has Supporters.

By Lawrence Davies. Special Correspondence of the New York Times

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15.--There have banded together in this city nearly a dozen politically-minded persons with so little respect for the epigram, "a Democrat in Philadelphia is a man without a country," that they have decided to make a real effort to establish a strong Democratic party where only Republicanism flourished before.

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Notable Births

Salvador Laurel

1928Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Philippines (died 2004)[†]

Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel, also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino and briefly served as the last Prime Minister from February 25 to March 25, 1986, when the position was abolished. He was a major leader of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), the political party that helped topple the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos with the 1986 People Power Revolution.

Sheila Jordan

1928Sheila Jordan, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025)[†]

Sheila Jeannette Jordan was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She recorded as a session musician with an array of critically acclaimed artists in addition to recording her own albums. Jordan pioneered a bebop and scat jazz singing style, with an upright bass as the only accompaniment. Jordan's music has earned praise from many critics, particularly for her ability to improvise lyrics; Scott Yanow described her as "one of the most consistently creative of all jazz singers". Charlie Parker often introduced Jordan as "the lady with the million dollar ears".

Historical Events

Steamboat Willie

1928Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.[†]

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by the Walt Disney Studio and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the public debut of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, although both appeared months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy and the then unreleased The Gallopin' Gaucho. Steamboat Willie is the third of Mickey's films to have been produced, but it is the first to have been distributed, because Disney had seen The Jazz Singer (1927) and became determined to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.