| 131114 | November 18 | Event | 1993 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule. |
| 131115 | November 18 | Event | 1996 – A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel. |
| 131116 | November 18 | Event | 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
| 131117 | November 18 | Event | 2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective. |
| 131118 | November 18 | Event | 2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first s |
| 131119 | November 18 | Event | 2012 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. |
| 131120 | November 18 | Event | 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars. |
| 131121 | November 18 | Birth | 709 – Emperor Kōnin of Japan (d. 782) |
| 131122 | November 18 | Birth | 1522 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont (d. 1568) |
| 131123 | November 18 | Birth | 1630 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1686) |
| 131124 | November 18 | Birth | 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706) |
| 131125 | November 18 | Birth | 1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773) |
| 131126 | November 18 | Birth | 1736 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1800) |
| 131127 | November 18 | Birth | 1756 – Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1837) |
| 131128 | November 18 | Birth | 1772 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806) |
| 131129 | November 18 | Birth | 1774 – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837) |
| 131130 | November 18 | Birth | 1785 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter and academic (d. 1841) |
| 131101 | November 18 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. |
| 131102 | November 18 | Event | 1944 – The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba. |
| 131103 | November 18 | Event | 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. |
| 131104 | November 18 | Event | 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. |
| 131105 | November 18 | Event | 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. |
| 131106 | November 18 | Event | 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service. |
| 131107 | November 18 | Event | 1970 – U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government. |
| 131108 | November 18 | Event | 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours ear |
| 131109 | November 18 | Event | 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. |
| 131110 | November 18 | Event | 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers. |
| 131111 | November 18 | Event | 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. |
| 131112 | November 18 | Event | 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. |
| 131113 | November 18 | Event | 1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives. |