What day of the week was November 18, 1978?

The day of the week November 18th, 1978 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 37 days until Christmas.

Damien Johnson the Irish footballer was born on 18 November in 1978.

Jim Jones the American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (b. 1931) died on this day in 1978. As did Leo Ryan the American soldier, educator, and politician (b. 1925) .

In Jonestown the 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 J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.