November 11

is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.

Events

308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul
1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
1675 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1833 - Former United States President John Quincy Adams is first chief executive involved in a railroad accident when the Camden & Amboy train he is riding derails due to a broken axle caused by an overheated journal box in the meadows near Hightstown, New Jersey. He is uninjured and continues his trip onto Washington, D.C. the following day.
1834 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1911 - Many cities in the midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00.
1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1970 - First broadcast of Sesame Street.
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal.
1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom succeeded Ibrahim Nasir as the president of the Republic of Maldives. He has since been re-elected for six consecutive 5-year terms.
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland.
1999 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Foggia, Italy, killing 62.
2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2004 - Under new ownership, G4TechTV terminated many great TechTV hosts, as well as crew, and aired their last episodes on the 10th and 11th.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2004 - Mary McAleese inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.

Births

1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)
1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (d. 1824)
1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (d. 1963)
1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
1887 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
1889 - Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
1891 - Rabbit Maranville, baseball player (d. 1954)
1898 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
1899 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1903 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born film producer (d. 1985)
1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1994)
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1914 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1915 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
1918 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
1919 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist
1925 - June Whitfield, British comedienne
1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor
1928 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939 - Denise Alexander, American actress
1940 - Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator
1943 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
1944 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician (The Youngbloods)
1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
1964 - Judith Edelman, American musician
1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress
1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian
1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
1976 - Mike Leon Grosch, German singer and finalist of Deutschland sucht den Superstar 3
1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1979 - Courtenay Semel, American reality TV star; daughter of Terry Semel
1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
1981 - Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty queen
1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1985 - Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Aa!, Elegies)

Deaths

397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
537 - Pope Silverius, saint
1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 960)
1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket martyrs:
1887 - George Engel (b. 1836)
1887 - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
1887 - Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
1887 - August Spies (b. 1855)
1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I.
1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1939 - Jan Opletal, czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague
1945 - Jerome David Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (b. 1900)
1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer
2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director. (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

R.C. Saints - Martin of Tours
Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries
Also see November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Angola - Independence Day (1975)
Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, from the Spanish Army in (1918)
Poland - Independence Day (1918)
South Korea - Pepero Day
United States - Bonza Bottler Day.
United States - Veterans Day (Formerly "Armistice Day")
Armistice Day in France and Belgium: end of World War I (1918)
Lacplesis' Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.
Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.

External links

BBC: On This Day

November 10 - November 12 - October 11 - December 11 -- listing of all days

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