November 11

November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining.

Events

   * 308 - Congress of Carnuntum, where Diocletian came out of retirement to
     attempt to negotiate an agreement to preserve the Tetrarchy
   * 1620 - Mayflower Compact signed, establishing the basic laws for the
     Plymouth Colony.
   * 1648 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint
     Maarten/Saint Martin
   * 1864 - General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia
     to the ground
   * 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
   * 1918 - World War I ends, and this day is thereafter celebrated as
     "Armistice Day," "Remembrance Day," "Veterans Day," "Victory Day," or
     "World War I Memorial Day," depending on your location.
   * 1921 - Tomb of the Unknowns dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery
   * 1940
        o The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in
          history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto
        o The German Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) Atlantis captures top secret
          British mail, and sends it to Japan
   * 1965 - Rhodesia proclaims itself independent.
   * 1968 - Maldives become a republic
   * 1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal
   * 1975 - Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the
     Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr during the Australian
     constitutional crisis of 1975.
   * 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Births

   * 1050 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1106)
   * 1154 - king Sancho I of Portugal
   * 1493 - Paracelsus, physician
   * 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady
   * 1792 - Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli
   * 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (+ 1881)
   * 1863 - Paul Signac, painter (+ 1935)
   * 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace
     Price 1911 (+ 1921)
   * 1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (+ 1947)
   * 1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (+ 1973)
   * 1885 - George Patton, American general (+ 1945)
   * 1887 - Roland Young, actor (+ 1953)
   * 1889 - Clifton Webb, actor (+ 1966)
   * 1897 - Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, mobster (+ 1962)
   * 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, author
   * 1903 - Sam Spiegel, film producer (+ 1985)
   * 1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official, spy (+ 1994)
   * 1909 - Robert Ryan, actor (+ 1973)
   * 1914 - Howard Fast, author
   * 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (+ 2003)
   * 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist
   * 1925 - June Whitfield, British comedienne
   * 1925 - Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor
   * 1927 - Mose Allison, jazz musician
   * 1928 - LaVern Baker
   * 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, poet
   * 1944 - Jesse Colin Young, musician ("The Youngbloods")
   * 1945 - Daniel Ortega, Sandinista, President of Nicaragua
   * 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, musician
   * 1962 - Demi Moore (born "Demetria Guynes"), actress
   * 1959 - Lee Haney, American body builder
   * 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
   * 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
   * 1980 - ManicGypsy Wikipedian

Deaths

   * 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
   * 537 - St. Silverius, Pope
   * 1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
   * 1285 - Peter III of Aragon
   * 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
   * 1831 - Nat Turner, American leader of a slave rebellion
   * 1855 - S¿ren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
   * 1880 - Ned Kelly hanged
   * 1945 - Jerome David Kern, American composer
   * 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer
   * 1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist
   * 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer
   * 1989 - Kenneth Maclean Glazier, Sr., minister, librarian, Secretary of
     the Liberal Party in Alberta
   * 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, writer, journalist
   * 2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor

Holidays and observances

   * Poland - the Independence Day
   * Opening of carnival season in Germany (on 11-11, at 11:11)
   * Remembrance Day in Canada
   * Armistice Day in Europe
   * Veteran's Day in the United States (Formerly "Armistice Day")

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