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Day Of The Week: November 18
November 18, 2025 is the 322nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 18
- 1105 –Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
- 1307 –William Tell shoots an apple off his son’s head.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1926 –George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 –United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
Who were born on November 18?
- 1785 –Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841)
- 1886 –Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian Communist politician (d. 1967)
- 1935 –Rodney Hall, Australian author
- 1943 –Leonardo Sandri, Argentine Catholic Cardinal
- 1945 –Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka
- 1951 –Justin Raimondo, American author
- 1958 –Plamen Krastev, Bulgarian hurdler
- 1970 –Mike Epps, American comedian
- 1970 –Peta Wilson, Australian actress
- 1975 –Anthony McPartlin, British actor, television presenter
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