November 18: Day of the Week
November 18, 2022 is the 322nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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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November 18 Historical Event(s)
- 326The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
- 1302Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
- 1626St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
- 1803The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1865Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
- 1930Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
- 1940New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
- 1978In 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.
- 1987Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
- 1991After 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?
- 1856Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929)
- 1883Carl Vinson, American politician (d. 1981)
- 1924Les Lye, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
- 1948Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress
- 1956Warren Moon, American football player
- 1959Karla Faye Tucker, first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984 (d. 1998)
- 1969Sam Cassell, American basketball player
- 1976Sage Francis, American musician
- 1980Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1981Shin Ji, Korean singer
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