November 18 is day 322 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, The Aftermath 30, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.7.0.3 by the Mayan Long Count

On this day in history:

1095 – The Council of Clermont began: leading to the First Crusade

1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, creating some sort of spiritual fascism.

1803 – The Battle of Vertières, was fought, leading  to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, 

1865 – Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"  was published

1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women were arrested for voting while female

1903 – Panama gave the US  exclusive rights over the Canal Zone in the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty.

1909 – The US sent two warships plus some marines to set up a base in Nicaragua for attacks on the government of José Santos Zelaya.  This was in part because Nicaragua was a threat to create a shipping path between the atlantic and pacific competing with the Panama Canal.

1928 – Steamboat Willie was released, eventually leading to our obscenely extended copyright laws

1961 –JFK sent 18,000 soldiers to South Vietnam as, heh, "advisors".

1978 – The Jonestown massacre went down, making a meme out of kool-aid

1988 – Reagan signed a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

1993 –The US House of Representatives. approved NAFTA.  Thanks Bill.

2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrived in Iraq but GWB and his entire cabinet were able to lie the US into war on Iraq all the same..

2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled  that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and gave the state legislature 180 days to change the law. This made Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health)

Born this day in:

1787 – Louis Daguerre,  physicist and photographer, invented the daguerreotype

1810 – Asa Gray,  botanist 

1836 – W. S. Gilbert, playwright, poet, and illustrator

1860 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer, and politician, 

1861 – Dorothy Dix, journalist and author 

1882 – Wyndham Lewis, painter and critic 

1882 – Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering forensic pathologist

1899 – Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor 

1899 – Howard Thurman, author, philosopher and civil rights activist 

1901 – George Gallup, statistician 

1908 – Imogene Coca,  actress, comedian, and singer 

1909 – Johnny Mercer, singer, songwriter and producer, co-founder of Capitol Records 

1927 – Hank Ballard,  singer and songwriter 

1928 – Sheila Jordan,  singer, songwriter, and pianist

1936 – Don Cherry, trumpet player

1944 – Edwin C. Krupp,  astronomer, archaeoastronomer, author, Director Griffith Observatory

1945 – Wilma Mankiller, activist, social worker, and first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation 

1946 – Chris Rainbow, singer, songwriter, and producer

1950 – Graham Parker, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1950 – Rudy Sarzo,  rock bass player

1952 – John Parr, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1953 – Jan Kuehnemund, rock guitarist 

1957 – Tony Bunn, bassist, composer, producer, and writer

1960 – Kim Wilde, singer & songwriter

Died this day in:

1247 – Robin Hood, heroic outlaw in English folklore; nothing about him, including his existence, is known with any certainty, except, it seems, his death.

1922 – Marcel Proust,  author and critic

1952 – Paul Éluard, poet and author (b. 1895)

1962 – Niels Bohr,  physicist, and academic, 

1965 – Henry A. Wallace, agronomist and bureaucrat,

1969 – Ted Heath,  trombonist and bandleader

1972 – Danny Whitten, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 

1976 – Man Ray, photographer and painter 

1994 – Cab Calloway,  singer, songwriterand bandleader 

1999 – Doug Sahm,  singer, guitarist, bajo sexto, and fiddle player. Sir Douglas, Texas Tornado.

2004 – Cy Coleman,  pianist and composer 

2010 – Brian G. Marsden, astronomer 

2013 – S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, nadaswaram player and composer 

2014 – Dave Appell, singer, songwriter. and producer 

2016 – Sharon Jones, soul and funk singer

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Apple Cider Day
Occult Day
William Tell Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

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