Nov. 18 in history
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver a short speech the following day at the dedication of a cemetery of soldiers killed during the battle there on July 1 to July 3, 1863. The address Lincoln gave in Gettysburg became one of the most famous speeches in American history.
At exactly noon on this day in 1883, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The need for continental time zones stemmed directly from the problems of moving passengers and freight over the thousands of miles of rail line that covered North America.
In 1946, future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was nearly lynched in Columbia, Tenn., just 30 miles from where the Ku Klux Klan was born. On this day in 1946, Thurgood Marshall was nearly lynched - Mississippi Today
In 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana.
In 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon free Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after more than four years of captivity. Waite was freed along with American educator Thomas M. Sutherland after intense negotiations by the United Nations.
In 1999, twelve people die while building a bonfire at Texas A&M University. (History.com 11/18/23)
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