What Day of the Week

November 18, 2021 is the 322^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1626

  St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
• 1686

  Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France’s anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
• 1730

  Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
• 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.
• 1928

  Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.
• 1963

  The first push-button telephone goes into service.
• 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.
• 1987

  King’s Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city’s busiest underground station, King’s Cross St Pancras.
• 1988

  War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

• 1787

  Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
• 1882

  Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1886

  Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian Communist politician (d. 1967)
• 1924

  Les Lye, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
• 1944

  Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
• 1954

  Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
• 1959

  Cindy Blackman, American jazz and rock drummer
• 1977

  Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1980

  Dustin Kensrue, American singer (Thrice)
• 1980

  Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer

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