November 18

November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
• 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
• 1105 – Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
• 1180 – Phillip II becomes king of France.
• 1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
• 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
• 1307 – William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
• 1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
• 1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.
• 1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
• 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.
• 1803 – The 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.
• 1809 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
• 1863 – King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1930 – Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka 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.
• 1944 – The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba
• 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.
• 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.
• 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
• 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.
• 1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
• 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.
• 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
• 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
• 1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
• 1993 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.
• 1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
• 2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

Births

• 1522 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general (d. 1568)
• 1630 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1686)
• 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
• 1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773)
• 1736 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer and harpsichordist (d. 1800)
• 1756 – Thomas Burgess, English bishop, author, and philosopher (d. 1837)
• 1772 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806)
• 1774 – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
• 1785 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841)
• 1786 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
• 1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851)
• 1804 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1878)
• 1810 – Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
• 1832 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish geologist and explorer (d. 1901)
• 1836 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright, poet, and illustrator (d. 1911)
• 1839 – August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
• 1856 – Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929)
• 1861 – Dorothy Dix, American journalist (d. 1951)
• 1874 – Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)
• 1880 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (d. 1952)
• 1882 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
• 1882 – Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1883 – Carl Vinson, American politician (d. 1981)
• 1886 – Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian politician (d. 1967)
• 1889 – Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Soviet politician (d. 1939)
• 1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1898 – Joris Ivens, Dutch director and producer (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (d. 1985)
• 1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and pollster (d. 1984)
• 1901 – V. Shantaram, Indian director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English politician (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Klaus Mann, German author (d. 1949)
• 1906 – George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1909 – Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – Hilda Nickson, English author (d. 1977)
• 1913 – Endre Rozsda, French painter (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (d. 1969)
• 1915 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
• 1918 – Tasker Watkins, Welsh soldier and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Georgia Carroll, American singer and actress (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Mustafa Khalil, Egyptian politician, 77th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 70th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967)
• 1923 – Anne Sargent, American actress
• 1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Ted Stevens, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Les Lye, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish judge (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Hank Ballard, American singer-songwriter (The Midnighters) (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer (d. 1994)
• 1928 – Salvador Laurel, Filipino politician, 10th Vice President of the Philippines (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Sheila Jordan, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1929 – Gianna D'Angelo, American soprano
• 1929 – Joey Forman, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
• 1932 – Nasif Estéfano, Argentine race car driver (d. 1973)
• 1932 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Bruce Conner, American painter, photographer, and director (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek journalist and diplomat
• 1935 – Rudolf Bahro, German author and politician (d. 1997)
• 1935 – William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, Scottish politician
• 1935 – Rodney Hall, Australian author
• 1936 – Ennio Antonelli, Italian cardinal
• 1936 – Don Cherry, American trumpet player (Old and New Dreams, New York Contemporary Five, and Codona) (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Doug Smith, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Norbert Ratsirahonana, Malagasy politician
• 1939 – Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, author, and critic
• 1939 – Amanda Lear, Hong Kong-French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1939 – Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
• 1940 – Qaboos bin Said al Said, Oman sultan
• 1941 – David Hemmings, English actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1942 – Linda Evans, American actress
• 1942 – Susan Sullivan, American actress
• 1943 – Leonardo Sandri, Argentine cardinal
• 1944 – Wolfgang Joop, German fashion designer, founded JOOP!
• 1945 – Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief (d. 2010)
• 1945 – Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician, 6th President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Alan Dean Foster, American author
• 1947 – Timothy Maude, American general (d. 2001)
• 1947 – Jameson Parker, American actor
• 1948 – Andrea Marcovicci, American actress and singer
• 1948 – Jack Tatum, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2005)
• 1950 – Dennis Haskins, American actor
• 1950 – Graham Parker, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Rumour)
• 1950 – Eric Pierpoint, American actor
• 1950 – Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-American bass player (Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult, Manic Eden, and Queensrÿche)
• 1951 – Justin Raimondo, American author
• 1952 – Peter Beattie, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Queensland
• 1952 – Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish voice actor (d. 2008)
• 1952 – Delroy Lindo, English actor and director
• 1953 – Alan Moore, English author and illustrator
• 1953 – Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor
• 1954 – Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
• 1954 – John Parr, English singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Carter Burwell, American composer
• 1955 – Michael Zimmer, German footballer
• 1956 – Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (d. 1995)
• 1956 – Warren Moon, American football player
• 1957 – Seán Mac Falls, Irish poet
• 1958 – Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine footballer and coach
• 1958 – Plamen Krastev, Bulgarian hurdler
• 1958 – Oscar Nunez, Cuban-American actor
• 1959 – Cindy Blackman, American drummer
• 1959 – Ulrich Noethen, German actor
• 1959 – Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (d. 1998)
• 1959 – Jimmy Quinn, Irish footballer and manager
• 1960 – Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
• 1960 – Shari Shattuck, American actress and author
• 1960 – Kim Wilde, English singer-songwriter and author
• 1960 – Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter
• 1961 – Nick Chinlund, American actor
• 1961 – Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist (Vixen)
• 1961 – Steven Moffat, Scottish scriptwriter and producer
• 1962 – Bart Bryant, American golfer
• 1962 – Kirk Hammett, American guitarist and songwriter (Metallica, Spastik Children, and Exodus)
• 1962 – Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
• 1963 – Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
• 1963 – Dante Bichette, American baseball player
• 1963 – Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
• 1963 – Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author and poet
• 1964 – Rita Cosby, American journalist
• 1965 – Tim DeLaughter, American singer-songwriter (Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree)
• 1967 – Tom Gordon, American baseball player
• 1967 – Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Gavin Peacock, English footballer
• 1968 – Barry Hunter, Irish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Romany Malco, American actor
• 1968 – Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
• 1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1969 – Sam Cassell, American basketball player
• 1969 – Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
• 1969 – Duncan Sheik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
• 1970 – Mike Epps, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1970 – Megyn Kelly, American journalist
• 1970 – Johan Liiva, Swedish singer-songwriter (Arch Enemy, Carnage, NonExist, and Hearse)
• 1970 – Peta Wilson, Australian actress
• 1972 – Jessi Alexander, American singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Jeroen Straathof, Dutch cyclist and speed skater
• 1973 – Nic Pothas, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, American actress and fashion designer
• 1975 – Shawn Camp, American baseball player
• 1975 – Anthony McPartlin, English comedian and actor
• 1975 – Dirk Müller, German race car driver
• 1975 – David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1975 – Pastor Troy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1975 – Jason Williams, American basketball player
• 1976 – Shagrath, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Dimmu Borgir Chrome Division, Ov Hell, and Fimbulwinter)
• 1976 – Sage Francis, American rapper (Non-Prophets)
• 1976 – Paulo César Pérez, Argentine footballer
• 1976 – Matt Welsh, Australian swimmer
• 1976 – Mona Zaki, Egyptian actress
• 1977 – Fabolous, American rapper and producer
• 1977 – Trent Barrett, Australian rugby player
• 1977 – Charles A. Lee, American sprinter
• 1978 – Damien Johnson, Irish footballer
• 1980 – Hamza al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (d. 2001)
• 1980 – Mathew Baynton, English actor and singer
• 1980 – Luke Chadwick, English footballer
• 1980 – Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1980 – François Duval, Belgian race car driver
• 1980 – Denny Hamlin, American race car driver
• 1980 – Dustin Kensrue, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thrice)
• 1980 – Junichi Okada, Japanese singer and actor (V6)
• 1981 – Shin Ji, South Korean singer-songwriter (Koyote)
• 1981 – Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor (17:28)
• 1981 – Nasim Pedrad, Iranian-American actress
• 1981 – Vittoria Puccini, Italian actress
• 1981 – Christina Vidal, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Greg Estandia, American football player
• 1983 – Travis Buck, American baseball player
• 1983 – Michael Dawson, English footballer
• 1983 – Jon Lech Johansen, Norwegian programmer, created DeCSS
• 1984 – Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer (W-inds)
• 1984 – Johnny Christ, American bass player (Avenged Sevenfold)
• 1985 – Allyson Felix, American sprinter
• 1985 – Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
• 1986 – Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
• 1987 – Jake Abel, American actor
• 1988 – Michael Roach, American soccer player
• 1988 – Montanna Thompson, English actress
• 1989 – Natalie Osman, American wrestler
• 1991 – Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player
• 1992 – Nathan Kress, American actor
• 1992 – Steven Skrzybski, German footballer

Deaths

• 1154 – Adelaide of Maurienne (b. 1092)
• 1305 – John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
• 1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop (b. 1474)
• 1590 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1528)
• 1724 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese priest (b. 1685)
• 1785 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1725)
• 1797 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
• 1814 – William Jessop, English engineer (b. 1745)
• 1852 – Rose Philippine Duchesne French-American nun and saint (b. 1769)
• 1886 – Chester A. Arthur, American politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1889 – William Allingham, Irish poet (b. 1824 or 1828)
• 1909 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
• 1922 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871)
• 1940 – Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (b. 1876)
• 1941 – Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Chris Watson, Australian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
• 1962 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Henry A. Wallace, American politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Ted Heath, English trombone player and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman and diplomat (b. 1888)
• 1972 – Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (b. 1943)
• 1976 – Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (b. 1931)
• 1978 – Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925)
• 1979 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Conn Smythe, Canadian soldier and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Mary Hamman, American author and editor (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Gia Carangi, American model (b. 1960)
• 1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak-Czech politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Peter Ledger, Australian illustrator (b. 1945)
• 1995 – Miron Grindea, Romanian literary journalist and editor (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Paul Bowles, American author (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Doug Sahm, American singer and guitarist (Sir Douglas Quintet and Flaco Jiménez) (b. 1941)
• 2002 – James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Robert Bacher, American nuclear physicist (b. 1905)
• 2004 – Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican comedian and television host (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Brian G. Marsden, English astronomer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian-American chess player (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Phoebe Hearst Cooke, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Ian Kirkpatrick, South African rugby player (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Neva Jane Langley, American model, Miss America 1953 (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Philip Ledger, English organist and composer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – William McCarthy, Baron McCarthy, English politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Kenny Morgans, Welsh footballer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Ed Richards, American fencer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Helmut Sonnenfeldt, German-American politician and scholar (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abhai of Hach (Syriac Orthodox Church)
  • Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul
  • Juthwara (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Mabyn (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican communion)
  • Rose Philippine Duchesne (Roman Catholic Church)
  • November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Latvia from Russia in 1918.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Morocco from France and Spain in 1956.
• National Day (Oman)
• The main day of the Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá or Chinita's Fair (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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