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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_18" title="November 18">November 18</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1583" title="1583">1583</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Godesberg" title="Siege of Godesberg">Siege of Godes­berg</a></b>, the first major siege of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_War" title="Cologne War">Cologne War</a>, began.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977" title="1977">1977</a> – Solomon Islands ratified the adoption of a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Solomon_Islands" title="Flag of Solomon Islands">new flag</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978" title="1978">1978</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones" title="Jim Jones">Jim Jones</a> led more than 900 members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple" title="Peoples Temple">Peoples Temple</a> to mass murder/suicide in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown" title="Jonestown">Jonestown</a></b>, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan" title="Leo Ryan">Leo Ryan</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – With its ruling in <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health" title="Goodridge v. Department of Public Health">Goodridge v. Department of Public Health</a></b></i>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court" title="Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court">Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court</a> made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017" title="2017">2017</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Numa" title="Cyclone Numa">Cyclone Numa</a></b>, a rare "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_tropical-like_cyclone" title="Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone">medicane</a>", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert_Commerson" title="Philibert Commerson">Philibert Commerson</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1727); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuyo_Maeda" title="Mitsuyo Maeda">Mitsuyo Maeda</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1878); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller" title="Wilma Mankiller">Wilma Mankiller</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1945); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maribel_Dom%C3%ADnguez" title="Maribel Domínguez">Maribel Domínguez</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1978)</p>