About November 18
November 18, 2024 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On November 18
- 401 –The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
- 1210 –Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
- 1494 –French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1905 –Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
- 1909 –Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
- 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.
- 1930 –Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
- 1938 –Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- 1940 –World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini’s disastrous invasion of Greece.
- 1943 –World War II– Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
- 1947 –The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
- 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.
- 1991 –Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
- 1993 –In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
- 2002 –Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
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