November 18, 2012 08:09 GMT
Today is Sunday, Nov. 18, the 323rd day of 2012. There are 43 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 18, 1942, "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning allegory about the history of humankind, opened on Broadway. On this date: In 1865, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain was first published under the title "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press. In 1883, the United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones. In 1886, the
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