What are the important events that happened on November 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 18 is the 322^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 5, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,840 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosadigon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 91 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,715 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 18 Historical Events

• 1302 –
  Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
• 1626 –
  St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
• 1865 –
  Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
• 1883 –
  American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
• 1903 –
  The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
• 1916 –
  World War I: First Battle of the Somme– in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
• 1929 –
  1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
• 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.
• 1970 –
  U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
• 1991 –
  After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

Who were born on November 18?

• 1756 –
  Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher and religious figure (d. 1837)
• 1923 –
  Ted Stevens, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1945 –
  Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief (d. 2010)
• 1952 –
  Claudio Capone, Italian-born Scottish voice actor (d. 2008)
• 1952 –
  Peter Beattie, Australian politician
• 1963 –
  Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
• 1964 –
  Rita Cosby, American journalist
• 1970 –
  Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
• 1974 –
  Chloë Sevigny, American actress
• 1984 –
  Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer (W-inds)

Who died on November 18?

• 1724 –
  Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
• 1797 –
  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
• 1814 –
  William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
• 1941 –
  Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
• 1941 –
  Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
• 1962 –
  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
• 1977 –
  Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
• 1978 –
  Jim Jones, American cult figure (Peoples Temple) (b. 1931)
• 1979 –
  Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• 1999 –
  Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)