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 323rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 5, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,864,800 minutes 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 ‘trihectaicosatrigon’ 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 72 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 4,350 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 18 Historical Events
- 401 –The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
- 1302 –Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
- 1730 –Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
- 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.
- 1918 –Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
- 1970 –U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
- 1978 –In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
- 1988 –War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
- 1991 –After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
- 1999 –In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59 ft Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
Who were born on November 18?
- 1934 –Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
- 1935 –Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
- 1947 –Jameson Parker, American actor
- 1952 –Delroy Lindo, British actor
- 1959 –Karla Faye Tucker, first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984 (d. 1998)
- 1968 –Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
- 1975 –Dirk Müller, German race car driver
- 1975 –Shawn Camp, American baseball player
- 1980 –Luke Chadwick, English footballer
- 1980 –Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer
Who died on November 18?
- 1559 –Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
- 1785 –Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
- 1941 –Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
- 1962 –Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1978 –Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925)
- 1984 –Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
- 1986 –Gia Carangi, American model (b. 1960)
- 2002 –James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 –Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
- 2009 –Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
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