November 11
November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 50 days remaining.
Events
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.
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 ).
1648 - France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten /Saint Martin .
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=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 .
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 and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne .
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 Compičgne in France .
1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland .
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 top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan .
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard : An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest .
1942 - Road to Morocco Bob Hope , Bing Crosby , and Dorothy Lamour , premieres.
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 .
1969 - Jim Morrison (The Doors ) is arrested by the FBI after repeatedly prodding a stewardess .
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 Prime Minister .
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.
1978 - A renovated Hollywood sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923 .
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys , becoming the second largest computer company.
1988 - In Sacramento, California , police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente .
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated the eighth President of Ireland .
1997 - Marianne Biancuzzo is charged for drowning her newborn baby in a toilet and hiding the remains in a coffee can in Tucson , Arizona .
2000 - In Kaprun , Austria , 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial , Wellington
2004 - Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat .
2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California .
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 )
1493 - Paracelsus , physician (d. 1541 )
1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax , British statesman (d. 1695 )
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius , German classical scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736 )
1744 - Abigail Adams , First Lady of the United States (d. 1818 )
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819 )
1791 - Josef Munzinger , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855 )
1792 - Mary Anne Evans , wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872 )
1810 - Alfred de Musset , French dramatist, poet, and novelist (d. 1857 )
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian novelist (d. 1881 )
1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji , Hindu saint
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army , WWI (d. 1925 )
1863 - Paul Signac , painter (d. 1935 )
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried , pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1911 (d. 1921 )
1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947 )
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973 )
1885 - George Patton , American general (d. 1945 )
1887 - Roland Young , actor (d. 1953 )
1889 - Clifton Webb , actor (d. 1966 )
1891 - Rabbit Maranville , baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1954 )
1897 - Lucky Luciano , mobster (d. 1962 )
1901 - Magda Goebbels , wife of Joseph Goebbels and NSDAP party member (d. 1945 )
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason , author
1903 - Sam Spiegel , film producer (d. 1985 )
1904 - Alger Hiss , American government official, spy (d. 1994 )
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead , British mathematician (d. 1960 )
1909 - Robert Ryan , actor (d. 1973 )
1914 - Howard Fast , author (d. 2003 )
1914 - Henry Wade , lawyer (d. 2001 )
1915 - William Proxmire , former U.S. Senator
1920 - Roy Jenkins , British politician (d. 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
1939 - Denise Alexander , soap opera actress
1940 - Barbara Boxer , U.S. Senator
1944 - Jesse Colin Young , musician ("The Youngbloods ")
1945 - Daniel Ortega , Sandinista , President of Nicaragua
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw , musician
1959 - Lee Haney , American body builder
1962 - Demi Moore (born "Demetria Guynes"), actress
1964 - Calista Flockhart , American actress
1967 - Gil de Ferran , racing driver
1969 - Carson Kressley , fashion expert on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio , American actor
1985 - Kalan Porter , Second Canadian Idol
Deaths
397 - Martin of Tours , French saint
537 - St. Silverius , Pope
1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
1130 - Teresa of Leon , illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon (b. 1080 )
1285 - Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239 )
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé , French general (b. 1621 )
1831 - Nat Turner , American leader of a slave rebellion (b. 1800 )
1855 - Sřren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher
1880 - Ned Kelly hanged
1880 - Lucretia Mott , American feminist , abolitionist (b. 1793 )
1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii , Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
1945 - Jerome David Kern , American composer
1969 - Ernest Ansermet , Swiss conductor (b. 1883 )
1974 - Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky , Ukrainian geneticist
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin , composer (b. 1894 )
1989 - Kenneth Maclean Glazier, Sr. , minister, librarian, Secretary of the Liberal Party in Alberta
1995 - Corneliu Coposu , Romanian politician and dissident
1997 - Rodney Milburn , American athlete
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman , writer, journalist
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman , voice actor
2000 - Hugh Paddick , British actor
2004 - Yasser Arafat , President of the Palestinian Authority (b. 1929 )
Holidays and observances
External links
November 10 - November 12 - October 11 - December 11 -- listing of all days
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