Daily Almanac: Nov. 18, 2021

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:37 a.m.

SET: 5:29 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 44 °F

Low: 25 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Rural Health Day

• Mickey Mouse Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1963 Push button phones are used for the first time

• 1978 Mass suicides in Jonestown

Births On This Day

• 1939 Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, author, critic

• 1953 Alan Moore

English author, illustrator

Deaths On This Day

• 1922 Marcel Proust

French writer

• 1978 Jim Jones

American cult leader